In May of 1917, a little over a year before the end of WWI, Hu Shi discovered that Edith Clifford Williams had kept all the letters he had written to her over the course of their friendship. Hu would go on to become one of the most influential Chinese intellectuals of all time, and Edith would establish herself as an abstract artist.
Niuniu Teo
Niuniu Teo is a Ph.D. student studying modern Chinese history at the University of Chicago. Before, she worked as a journalist for KQED, NPR's branch in San Francisco.