Ma Haide (George Hatem)

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Ma Haide (1910–1988), born George Hatem, was a doctor and public health official in the People's Republic of China from 1933 until his death.

Haide was born in Buffalo, New York to Lebanese immigrant parents, and studied medicine at the American University in Beirut and the University of Geneva.

Haide set up a medical practice in Shanghai in 1933. Disgusted by the corruption of Shanghai, he closed his practice three years later, and was smuggled across Kuomintang lines to provide medical service to Mao Zedong's Communist troops.

He remained a doctor with the Communists until their victory in 1949, and then became a public health official. He was one of the few non-Chinese persons to hold a position of trust and authority in the People's Republic of China.


References

  • Snow, Edgar. The Other Side of the River : Red China Today. New York : Random House, 1962.

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