Biography

From 1970 to 1992 he took top jobs at several pro-democracy and pro-independence organizations.

Studied law and political science at what was then Imperial Tokyo University, later rebranded as the University of Tokyo. He returned to Taiwan to continue his education at National Taiwan University and obtained a bachelor's degree in political science in 1948.

Peng returned to Taiwan in 1992 at the invitation of then President Lee Teng-hui. He joined the DPP in 1995 and ran against Lee in the country's first direct presidential election on behalf of the DPP.

In 1954 he returned to Taiwan to teach at National Taiwan University.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appointed Peng as an advisor to Taiwan's delegation to the United Nations in 1961, the highest political position held by a native Taiwanese person at the time.