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- While developing a series of treatments based on traditional stories and folk tales, children's book author Robert D. San Souci discovered the Ballad of Mulan, an ancient Chinese poem about Hua Mulan – a Chinese woman who replaces her ailing father in the army by disguising herself as a man.
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Sep 9, 2020 · The Female Mulan engages the questions of gender in a much more complicated manner than the “Poem of Mulan”. The play clearly presents a case of performance, and a performance that is crucial both domestically and nationally to Mulan; yet, the character who carries out that performance dismisses her actions completely.
- Joshua J. Mark
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Sep 4, 2020 · The story of Mulan, a young Chinese woman who disguises herself as a man and joins the army to save her father’s life, has been told over and over again for the past 1,500 years at least....
May 29, 2020 · Hua Mulan is one of the most legendary women of ancient China. Her heroic actions were first recorded in ancient texts, retold in the famous poem Ballad of Mulan, and later popularized in the 1998 Walt Disney film Mulan. Today, her story continues to be told in schools across China.
- Natalia Klimczak
“But we never suspected that Mulan was a woman!” Most people tell the gender of a rabbit by its movement: The male runs quickly, while the female often keeps her eyes shut.
Sep 4, 2020 · After 12 years of war, Mulan returns to her hometown along with her comrades, who are shocked to learn that she is a woman. This first version ends with the quatrain: The male hare wildly kicks...
- Suyin Haynes
The female individual and the empire: A historicist approach to Mulan and Kingston's woman warrior; The poem in Chinese calligraphy (images), simplified characters, traditional characters, and an English translation; The poem in printed Chinese, with hyperlinks to definitions and etymologies
Sep 4, 2020 · It is only at this point, the story states, that her fellow soldiers learn that she is a woman. According to China Highlights, the Ballad of Mulan became well-known during the Tang Dynasty in ...