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Sophie Zhou’s height

Height 163 cm. Sophie Zhou is Ma Haide’s wife. Originally named Zhou Suzhen, she was born on May 19, 1920 in Donghengtang, Shenjiamen Street, Putuo District, now the Dongda Neighborhood Committee. Entering school at the age of 6.

Zhou Sophie is Ma Haide’s wife. Also called Sophie. Maheide's original name was George Heidem, and his father was of Lebanese descent who immigrated to the United States. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1910. He graduated from the University of Geneva in Switzerland in 1933 and received a doctorate in medicine. In the same year, he went to China to practice medicine and investigate tropical diseases. In the summer of 1936, he went to northern Shaanxi and stayed as a doctor and consultant to the Ministry of Health of the Central Military Commission. Joined the Communist Party of China in February 1937. While in Yan'an, he also served as a Central Health Doctor and a consultant to the Central Foreign Affairs Group of the Communist Party of China. In 1946, he went to Peking to participate in the work of the Military Adjustment Department, and served as the medical consultant and English translator of the Chinese Communist Party delegation and the consultant of the General Administration of Relief and Rehabilitation of the Liberated Areas. On the day New China was founded in 1949, he was approved to become a Chinese citizen. Later he served as consultant and deputy director of the Institute of Dermatology and Venereous Diseases, consultant to the Ministry of Health, etc., and made significant contributions to the prevention and treatment of leprosy and other diseases. In 1988, he was awarded the honorary title of "Pioneer of Health Care in New China". He died of illness in Beijing in October of the same year at the age of 78.

Nowadays, people are familiar with many Chinese-American celebrities, but there is also a famous Chinese-American doctor who has left a famous name in the annals of modern history, and that is Ma Haider, whom Mao Zedong praised as "a complete Chinese". He arrived in northern Shaanxi with Snow in 1936, the most difficult period of the Chinese revolution, and stayed to join the Red Army. In the following decades, he worked enthusiastically and became a pioneer in the health industry in New China.

Determined to be a doctor to treat poor people. After receiving his doctorate, he learned that many poor people in China needed help, so he resolutely came to China to accompany American reporter Snow into the Soviet area in northern Shaanxi. When Mao Zedong told his personal resume, he also He was present and deeply moved, and then asked to stay and became the famous "Doctor Ma" in Yan'an.

Ma Haide, who was born in the United States to a Middle Eastern immigrant family, grew up in poverty and determined to be a doctor to treat people who have no money when he grows up. He graduated from the University of North Carolina on a work-study program and was admitted to the world-famous Medical University of Geneva. After receiving his doctorate, he heard that there was a China in Asia known as the "Sick Man of East Asia", so he came to Shanghai in 1933.

Ma Haide met Smedley, a progressive American female writer, in Shanghai. Through her, he learned that there was a red area in China that represented light, so he told Soong Ching Ling about his desire to see it. At that time, he also tried his best to assist the Chinese underground organization and wrote articles introducing the Chinese Red Army for American newspapers. In the spring of 1936, Soong Ching Ling invited Ma Haide to her home and told him that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China agreed to allow American journalist Snow to go to northern Shaanxi for interviews and hoped that a doctor would accompany him. Ma Haide immediately packed his bags, and in June, he and Snow used donkeys carrying cameras and medicines to reach Yan'an controlled by the Northeast Army, and then entered the Soviet area.