Author: Ruth Bookwalter Hummel
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Traveling China In 1917 – A Woman Traveling Alone (Ruth Hummel)
Ruth Bookwalter Hummel lived in China with her husband Arthur Hummel in 1917; in this letter to her sister, she describes a journey she took to travel from the remote area of Fenyang, Shanxi, China, to Beijing. In 1917 this journey took about a week as she traveled over some very rough roads; today, the…