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Mar 18, 2013 · The Story of Mulan: With Hou Meng Yao, Pei-Pei Cheng, Cynthia Khan, Ou Wang. A retelling of the story of the strong willed Hua Mulan, who ends up joining an all male army in place of her elderly father.
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- 2013-03-18
- Drama, History, Romance
- 45
- Summary & Time Period
- The Female Mulan & Succeeding Versions
- Modern-Day Mulan
- Conclusion
The story, as it is best known today through the recent films, places Mulan in an unidentified era of Imperial China (221 BCE - 1912 CE), but the original poem is set during the Northern Wei Period. The modern and ancient versions follow basically the same plot of a young girl who takes her aged father's place in the army when he is called to serve...
During the Song Dynasty, the anthologist Guo Maoqian completed his Collected Works of the Music Bureau which included documents from the work known as Musical Records Old and New from the 6th century CE, including the Mulan legend. There are no known versions of the Mulan story between the Tang Dynasty and the play The Female Mulanby the playwright...
According to Shiamin and Idema, an opera Mu Lan Joins the Army was written in 1903 CE which sets the action in the Han Dynasty with the Xiongnu (a tribe of warriors often associated with the Huns) serving as the antagonists. The story follows the same basic plot as earlier versions, but the focus is on the cowardice of men and strength of women. Sh...
The most recent Mulan (2020), incorporates a number of motifs and characters to tell the story for a new generation. An early scene in which Mulan is out riding and notices two hares running side-by-side is a direct allusion to the earliest version of the legend when the narrator points out that no one notices the difference in gender when hares ru...
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Apr 3, 2020 · Mulan, Disney’s latest live-action offering, is a new adaptation of a beloved Chinese ballad. Ahead of the film’s release, Professor Lan Dong of the University of Illinois Springfield explores the origins of the legend – and the real history that might have inspired the tale…. Published: April 3, 2020 at 11:40 AM.
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Jul 18, 2013 · Overview. 48 episodes. IMDB TMDB TVDB Fanart.tv. Status Ended. Network #<Network:0x00007fbba20e21c0> Premiered July 18, 2013. Runtime 45m. Total Runtime 1d 14h 24m (48 episodes) Country China. Languages Chinese. A retelling of the story of the strong willed Hua Mulan, who ends up joining an all male army in place of her elderly father.
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- July 18, 2013
The story of Hua Mulan has inspired a number of screen and stage adaptations. Stage. Mulan Joins the Army (1917 play) starring Mei Lanfang; Mulan Jr., a one-act stage musical based on the 1998 Disney animated film Mulan; The Legend of Marissa Inouye (2013 dance production) by the Hong Kong Dance Company
- Ballad of Mulan
- Cavalry soldier
- Female
- Northern Wei
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....
Jan 8, 2022 · The ballad tells Mulan’s original story of disguising herself as a man to protect her father from being drafted into the war. As a soldier, Hua Mulan goes into battle for 12 years, becoming a skilled and esteemed warrior of the Chinese army.
