She spends each night alone, curled up in a four-and-a-half by eight-foot rooftop tent, balanced on stilts above her car. She has seen her daughter and grandchildren only once in the past six months, and her husband not at all. “I’ve been a wife, a mother and a grandmother,” Ms. Su said. “I came out this time to find myself.”After fulfilling her family’s expectations of dutiful Chinese womanhood, Ms. Su is embracing a new identity: fearless road-tripper and internet sensation. Her blunt but vulnerable demeanor has made Ms. Su — a former factory worker with a high school education — an accidental feminist icon of a sort rarely seen in China.

Source: International New York Times April 02, 2021 15:00 UTC