Interview, George Hatem; see also his »American Childhood, Chinese Maturing,« China Reconstructs 33, no. 10 (October 1984): 26-29, and note in Beijing Review 28, no. 28 (July 1985): 5, and his »On Agnes Smedley,« Voice of Friendship, no. 12 (August 1985): 11-12. In the 1980s Hatem still lived in Beijing as a grandfather with near-ministerial rank in the Ministry of Health. He has a legendary reputation, especially for his part in the campaign to eradicate venereal disease during the early 1950s.