The people's war
China DailyStudents arrive in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, to join the revolution led by the Communist Party of China. In 1936, Shafick George Hatem, an American doctor who was based in Shanghai, accepted an invitation to visit Yan'an in the north of Shaanxi province which, at the time, was a major revolutionary base for the Communist Party of China. Witnessing the Party's endeavor to rescue the country, which was on the edge of being torn apart by Japanese invasion and social turmoil, Hatem decided to stay in Yan'an to lastingly support the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Chinese revolution. For Chinese people, he is better known as Ma Haide, later becoming one of the first foreigners granted Chinese citizenship after the founding of New China in 1949, through which he would go on to make a great contribution to the country's public health system. In those tough years, a long list of foreigners made significant contributions to the Chinese revolution, including Ma, Michael Lindsay, the British scholar from Yenching University and Canadian doctor Henry Norman Bethune, among others.
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