Chu Cha-pei

Chu Cha-pei was an anarchist guerilla leader and soldier, active in the Yunnan Resistance. The only known account of him comes from an interview with H.L. Wei in 1975, who said he was "a sort of Chinese Makhno, from the Yunnan province in the south, near Burma and Indo-China, the son of a soldier and attended Whampoa Military Academy. He read Pa Chin's translations of anarchist classics and an ardent anarchists. He later met Pa Chin and visited me and my wife in Nanjing in 1936. He told us that one day he would welcome us to an anarchist utopia in the south. Chu Cha-pei actually knew about Makhno from Bao Puo, who wrote about him in the paper Kuo Feng (National Folkways) after returning to China from Moscow in 1923. Chu was tall, strong, intelligent. Like Pa Chin, he was a man of few words. He fought in turn against the Japanese, the Nationalists, and the Communists, just as Makhno had fought against the Austro-German occupiers, the Whites and Nationalists, and the Communists. Again like Makhno, his base of activity was in the mountains of his native district in the south, which he continued to launch attacks against the Communist authorities throughout the 1950s. He is probably still there, still alive, hiding in the mountains of Yunnan, though his precise whereabouts are unknown."