Register of the Peng Shu-tse and Chen Bilan papers
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Title: Peng Shu-tse and Chen Bilan papers
Date (inclusive): 1924-1987
Collection Number: 92034
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Chinese
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, theses, and resolutions relating to the early communist movement in China, and to Trotskyist
activities in China and elsewhere. Includes memoirs, other writings, and correspondence of Chen Bilan, the companion of Peng
Shu-tse, relating to the same topics and also to the condition of women in Chinese society.
Creator:
Peng, Shu-tse, 1895-
Creator:
Chen, Bilan, 1902-1987
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1992.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Peng Shu-tse and Chen Bilan papers papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Biographical Note
| 1895 |
Peng born, Hunan Province, China |
| 1902 |
Ch'en born, Hupei Province, China |
| 1920 |
Peng joined Chinese Communist Party |
| 1921-1924 |
Peng student at University of Toilers of the East, Moscow |
| 1922 |
Ch'en joined Chinese Communist Party |
| 1924-1925 |
Ch'en student at University of Toilers of the East, Moscow |
| 1925 |
Peng and Ch'en established household |
| 1925-1927 |
Peng member of national Political Bureau of Chinese Communist Party and editor of
Hsiang-tao chou-pao and
Hsin ch'ing-nien. Ch'en member of Shanghai Region Political Bureau of Chinese Communist Party and secretary of Shanghai Region Women's Commission
|
| 1929 |
Peng and Ch'en charter members of Chinese Left Opposition. Expelled from Chinese Communist Party |
| 1931 |
Peng and Ch'en charter members of Communist League of China |
| 1932-1937 |
Peng imprisoned in Nanking |
| 1948 |
Peng and Ch'en moved to Hong Kong. Charter members of Revolutionary Communist Party of China |
| 1950 |
Peng and Ch'en moved to Vietnam |
| 1951 |
Peng and Ch'en moved to France. Continued as leaders of exiled Chinese section of Fourth International. Peng for many years
member of International Executive Committee of Fourth International
|
| 1975 |
Peng and Ch'en moved to United States |
| 1983 |
Peng died |
| 1987 |
Ch'en died |
Scope and Content Note
The papers of the veteran Chinese Trotskyist leader Peng Shu-tse [P'eng Shu-chih] include also those of his lifelong companion
Ch'en Pi-lan [Chen Bilan]. They date overwhelmingly from the post-1949 period, during which Peng, Ch'en and other Chinese
Trotskyists were in exile. Many of their writings deal, however, with their early political activity, and with their participation
in the early years of the Chinese Communist Party and especially in the revolutionary events of 1925-1927. The book-length
memoirs of Ch'en Pi-lan are particularly notable. They, and others of her writings, are concerned not only with the Chinese
revolutionary movement in general, but also with the Chinese women's movement in particular.
Material from the post-1949 period is also of value in documenting activities of the Fourth International and of its exiled
Chinese section, and of Trotskyist analysis of the Maoist regime in China, the Chinese commune system, and the Chinese Cultural
Revolution. More than half of the material in the collection is in English, but a sizable proportion of it is in Chinese.
The papers were formerly housed in New York City in the Library of Social History, an affiliate of the Socialist Workers Party
of the United States. Together with other holdings of the Library of Social History, they were acquired by the Hoover Institution
Library & Archives from the Anchor Foundation in 1992.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women -- China
Communism -- China
Fourth International
Biographical File
1973-1987
Scope and Contents note
Bibliographies, obituaries, and other biographical data, relating to Peng Shu-tse and Ch'en Pi-lan
box 1, folder 1
General. Bibliographies, obituaries, and miscellany
1977-1987
box 1, folder 2
Miller, Joseph T., "P'eng Shu-chih and the Chinese Revolution: A Tentative Political Biography,"
1973
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Speeches and Writings of Peng Shu-tse
1924-1976
Scope and Contents note
Arranged chronologically
box 1, folder 3
["The October Revolution and Leninism: For the Commemoration of the Seventh Anniversary of the October Revolution"],
Hsiang-tao chou-pao
1924 November 7
Scope and Contents note
Holograph English translation
box 1, folder 4
["The Historical Significance of the Fighting Period of May 4th Movement in 1919"]
1946 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 5
["Le caractère de classe du Parti communiste chinois et du nouveau régime"]
1951 November 8
Scope and Contents note
Typed French translation
box 1, folder 6
["Remarques supplementaires et corrections au 'Rapport sur la question chinois'"]
1952 May 10
Scope and Contents note
Typed French translation
box 1, folder 7
"Criticisms on the Draft Resolution on the Third Chinese Revolution,"
1952 June 2
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 8
"An Open Letter to the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: In Protest against Persecutions of Trotskyists
in China,"
1953 April 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 9
"Rise and Decline of Stalinism,"
1953 June
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 10
"A Few Criticisms to Serve as Amendments on the Resolution on the Third Chinese Revolution,"
1954 March
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 11
"Letter to the Chinese Trotskyist Organization,"
1954 April 4
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 12
"A Review on Pabloism: From Pablo to Cochran, Clarke and Mestre,"
1955 January 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 13
"Resolution on the Parity Commission,"
1955 November 7
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 14
"Declaration on the Resolution of Solidarity with the Algerian Struggle for National Liberation,"
1956 January 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 15
"Draft Resolution on the Evolution of the Post-War International Situation, Its Perspectives and the Tasks of the Fourth International,"
1956 December
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 16
Article on anniversary of assassination of Leon Trotsky
1958
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 17
Article on invitation to Nikita Khrushchev to visit the United States
1959
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 18
"Are the Communes a 'Superior Type of Economic Organization', or an Effective Instrument for Exploiting and Controlling the
Peasants by the CCP?"
1959
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 19
"Communes Are 'Voluntary Peasant Cooperation' and 'Are Administered by Elected Councils Not by Bureaucratic Edict'?"
1959
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 20
"'The Great Productive Increase in Farming' and 'From Enslavement for Women to Equality',"
1959
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 21
"The Criticism of the Several Opinions in Support of the Chinese Rural People's Communes and Our Attitude toward the Chinese
Rural People's Communes,"
1959
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 22
"A Few More Words on Comrades Liang and Swabeck,"
1959 August 18
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 23
"A Supplement to 'The Criticism of the Several Opinions in Support of the Chinese Rural People's Communes and Our Attitude
toward the Chinese Rural People's Communes',"
1959 September 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 24
Article on situation in France
1959 December 27
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 25
"On the Nature of the Chinese Communist Party and Its Regime: Political Revolution or Democratic Reform?"
1960 April
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 26
"On the Suggestions and Proposals on the Unity of the World Trotskyist Movement,"
1961 May 8
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 27
"My Opinion on the Following Two Questions: The Question of the Cuban Revolution: The Question of China,"
1961 June 6
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 28
"A Draft Resolution on the Cuban Revolution and the Task of the Trotskyists,"
1961 July 20
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 29
"Where Is Burns Taking the S.L.L.? On the Peril of the Sectarian Tendency of the S.L.L.,"
1962
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 30
"Two Extreme Attitudes of the S.L.L. towards the Algerian Struggle of Liberation: From the Policy of Right Adaptation to the
Policy of Left Sectarianism,"
1963
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 31
"To Continue the Split or to Re-unify the Movement?"
1963 January 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 32
"The Evolution of Pabloism and the Struggle against Pabloism by SLL Leaders,"
1963 January
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 33
Article upon reading
Pravda
1963 February 22
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 34
Article on Pabloism
circa 1964
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 35
Article on Chinese Cultural Revolution
1967
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 36
"The Relationship and Differences between Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi" [interview with Antonio Farien]
1967 July 6
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 37
Article on Chinese Cultural Revolution
circa 1968
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 38
"The New Developments in the Chinese Situation,"
1969
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 39
["Maintain the Truth of History, or Fake History?"]
1970 June 28
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 40
Introduction to Leon Trotsky,
Problems of the Chinese Revolution [new edition]
1974
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 41
Message to
Intercontinental Press banquet [with Ch'en Pi-lan]
1974 April 24
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 42
P'ing Chang Kuo-t'ao ti "Wo ti hui i": Chung-kuo ti erh tz'u ko ming shih pai ti ch'ien yin hou kuo ho chiao hsün [A Criticism of Chang Kuo-t'ao's "My Memoirs": The Course, Consequences and Lessons of the Defeat of the Second Chinese Revolution]
1975
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 43
"Comments on the LTF Draft Resolution 'The Key Issues in the Portuguese Revolution',"
1975 August 1
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 44
"A Statement on the Slanders Circulated by the Healy Group against Hansen, Novack, and the Socialist Workers Party" [with
Ch'en Pi-lan and Louis Sinclair]
1976
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 1, folder 45
["Questions and Answers on the Civil War in China"]
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph (in Chinese)
box 1, folder 46
Articles on Chinese Cultural Revolution
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holographs (in Chinese)
box 2, folder 1
Notes and fragments (mainly in Chinese)
undated
Speeches and Writings of Ch'en Pi-lan
1933-1981
Scope and Contents note
Arranged chronologically
box 2, folder 2
["The Evolutionist View of Sexual Selection"],
Tung-fang tsa-chih
1933
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (in Chinese) and typed English translation
box 2, folder 3
["Village Women and the Bankruptcy of Villages"],
Tung-fang tsa-chih
1935
Scope and Contents note
Typed English translation
box 2, folder 4
["The Modern Family Institution and the Question of Children"],
Tung-fang tsa-chih
1935 July-September
Scope and Contents note
Typed English translation
box 2, folder 5
["Examining the Problem of Women's Suicide"],
Tung-fang tsa-chih
1936
Scope and Contents note
Typed English translation
box 2, folder 6
"Attitude to Life / Attitude à la vie,"
1947
Scope and Contents note
Typescript (in English and French)
box 2, folder 7
"Looking Back Over My Years with P'eng Shu-tse,"
1965 November
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 8
["Lies Loving No Facts"]
1968 September 16
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (in Chinese) and holograph and typed English translations
box 2, folder 9
"A Criticism of 'Guerrilla Warfare: Lessons of China',"
1971 January 10
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 2, folder 10
"In Memory of My Son, Yau Ming,"
1971 May 28
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 11
"A Statement on Portugal,"
1975
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph
box 2, folder 12
"My Experiences on Women's Movement in China,"
circa 1970s
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 13
Article on Chinese women's movement
circa 1970s
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
["My Memoirs"]
circa 1981
box 2, folder 14-17
Chinese text
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
English translation
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 1
Chapter 1. "Childhood: At Home and at School"
box 3, folder 2
Chapter 2. "Life and Struggles at the College of Education for Women"
box 3, folder 3
Chapter 3. "'Entering the Party' and 'Cancelling the Marriage Agreement'"
box 3, folder 4
Chapter 4. "From Wuhan to Peking"
box 3, folder 5
Chapter 5. "Life and Study in Shanghai"
box 3, folder 6
Chapter 6. "Setback on the Journey to the Soviet Union"
box 3, folder 7
Chapter 7. "To the Soviet Union"
box 3, folder 8
Chapter 8. "Studies and Party Education in the Chinese Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow"
box 3, folder 9
Chapter 9. "Studies and Party Education in the Chinese Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow
[continued]"
box 3, folder 10
Chapter 10. "The Outbreak of the May 30th Movement and Preparations to Return to China"
box 3, folder 11
Chapter 11. "My Work in Honan, "
August-October 1925
box 3, folder 12
Chapter 12. "Work in Shanghai, "
1925-1927
box 3, folder 13
Chapter 13. "A Month in Canton: After Chiang Kai-shek's Coup of "
March 20, 1926
box 3, folder 14
Chapter 14. "Back to Shanghai"
box 3, folder 15
Chapter 15. "The Northern Expedition and the Armed Uprising of the Shanghai Workers"
box 3, folder 16
Chapter 16. "The Wuhan Period and the Fifth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party"
box 3, folder 17
Chapter 17. "The Wuhan Government's Liquidation of Communists, and My Life"
box 3, folder 18
Chapter 18. "Two Months in the North"
box 3, folder 19
Chapter 19. "Our Life after Returning to Shanghai from the North, and Chü Ch'iu-pai"
box 3, folder 20
Chapter 20. "The Beginning of Our Life of Hardship"
box 3, folder 21
Chapter 21. "The Beginning of the Chinese Trotskyist Movement and Our Expulsion from the CCP"
box 3, folder 22
Chapter 22. "A Catastrophe Brought on by a Traitor"
box 3, folder 23
Chapter 23. "Peng Shu-chih's Arrest on "
October 15, 1932
box 3, folder 24
Chapter 24. "Life during the Five Years Following Shu-chih's Arrest"
box 3, folder 25
Chapter 25. "Life during the Five Years Following Shu-chih's Arrest [continued]"
box 3, folder 26
Chapter 26? "The Socialist Cultural Movement after the Failure of the Revolution, and the Trotskyist Faction"
box 3, folder 27
Chapter 27? "P'eng Shu-chih and Ch'en Tu-hsiu's Release from Prison and their Subsequent Separation"
box 3, folder 28
Chapter 28? "Leaving China: From Hong Kong to Vietnam, "
1950
box 3, folder 29
"A Week in Hospital,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Correspondence
1952-1981
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence of Peng Shu-tse and Ch'en Pi-lan, interfiled, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 4, folder 3
Bombaro, Natalie
1975-1978
box 4, folder 5
Cannon, James P.
1953-1958
box 4, folder 7
Cornelissen, Igor
1971-1972
box 4, folder 12
Fourth International. International Committee
1957-1958
box 4, folder 13
Fourth International. International Executive Committee
1967-1976
box 4, folder 14
Fourth International. International Secretariat, (including draft in Chinese)
1953-1954
box 4, folder 15
Fourth International. United Secretariat
1966-1977
box 4, folder 18
Hamilton, Betty
1957-1959
box 4, folder 21
Harris, Alan and Connie
1970
box 4, folder 25
Hsin-ch'eng, (in Chinese)
1972
box 4, folder 26
Institut Léon Trotsky
1977
box 4, folder 27
Japan Revolutionary Communist League
1954-1973
box 4, folder 30
Kagan, Richard C., (partly in Chinese)
1971-1972
box 4, folder 33
Lee, Shee, (partly in Chinese)
1956-1975
box 4, folder 39
Miller, Joseph T.
1972-1976
box 4, folder 40
Nabata, Hisashi, (partly in Chinese)
1966-1972
box 4, folder 41
Nakajima, Mineo
1969-1971
box 4, folder 44
Peng family, (in Chinese)
1967-1973
box 4, folder 46
Pinot, Jean-Christian
undated
box 4, folder 49
Revolutionary Communist Party [China], (in Chinese with English translation)
1954
box 4, folder 51
Roberts, Demila
1964-1967
box 4, folder 53
Seabold, Mr. and Mrs.
1966-1967
box 4, folder 55
Socialist Workers Party [U.S.]
1971
box 4, folder 59
Unidentified, (mainly in Chinese)
1958-1964
box 5, folder 1
Wataru, Yakushiji
1972-1973
box 5, folder 2
Waters, Mary-Alice
1973-1976
box 5, folder 6
Wu, Chung-hsin, (in Chinese)
1973
box 5, folder 7
Yamanishi, Eiichi
1952-1971
Socialist Workers Party Correspondence
1953-1981
Scope and Contents note
Letters exchanged between members of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) relating to Peng Shu-tse and Ch'en Pi-lan, arranged
chronologically. Includes discussion of assistance to Peng and Ch'en, their writing projects, and their move to the United
States
Fourth International Subject File
1930-1975
Scope and Contents note
Circulated letters, reports, discussion documents, resolutions, declarations, minutes, and bulletins, relating to political
discussions within the Fourth International. Arranged alphabetically by country under discussion
box 5, folder 16
(partly in Chinese)
1949-1959
Scope and Contents note
Includes 1953 appeal of Trotskyists in Shanghai
box 5, folder 17
(partly in Chinese)
1966-1975
Scope and Contents note
Includes 1972 document in Chinese on Chinese Trotskyist military struggle
box 5, folder 19
Wang, Fan-hsi. Letters, memoirs, and other writings
1966-1973
box 5, folder 20
Printed articles from Chinese Trotskyist press, (in Chinese)
1955-1967
box 5, folder 22
Japan, (partly in Chinese)
1953-1960
