The First Foreigner to Join the Chinese Nationality

It all started with one half of a five-pound note. In June of 1936, two foreigners, George Hatem and Edgar Snow, checked into a hotel in Xi'an. They wanted to reach Yan'an, the city in which the headquarters of the Chinese Red Army was located. They didn't know how they could get there, until a Chinese man showed up with one half of a five-pound note.