After the Communist victory in China, he lived in exile in Vietnam, France and the United States.
His memoir was published in France by his daughter Cheng Yingxiang and son-in-law Claude Cadart.
[2] In 1949, on the eve of Communist victory in China, Peng fled Shanghai with his family to Hong Kong and then to Saigon, Vietnam in January 1950.
[3] In Paris, his daughter Cheng Yingxiang (程映湘) married the French sinologist Claude Cadart.
They later organized, translated and published Peng's memoirs entitled L’envol du communisme en Chine.