The young George Hatem journeyed to Shanghai in 1933 to practice
medicine and see the sights. The deplorable health and social
conditions he found there caused his sympathies to veer quickly to
the revolutionary efforts of the Chinese Communist party, and
before long he joined the underground Party members in
conspiratorial meetings and activities. In 1936 he left Shanghai on
a secret Province after completing the Long March. For the next 14
years, Hatem served the Communist troops as physician and adviser.
He took the name Ma Haide and became the first foreigner admitted
into China's Communist Party. After the Communist victory in 1949,
he became the first foreigner granted citizenship in the People's
Republic. Over the next 40 years, his reputation grew as one of the
leading public health physicians in the world. Until his death in
1988, he showed absolute allegiance to the Party. Few foreigners
have been accepted into Chinese society as readily as he and
certainly none have had such intimate access to 20th century
China's most powerful figures.
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