“Zhu Su’e welcomes me to her comfortable apartment, where she has lived for sixty years. She is small in stature but has a big voice. Even at ninety-four, she speaks distinctively and eloquently. Her mind is still quick and precise. She must have been a competent attorney in her prime. Beyond these remarkable qualities, she amazes me with her resilience. She is a woman who can laugh hard at the absurdities that made her life miserable.”

The full text is from the book Women in the Chinese Enlightenment by Wang Zheng.