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Sep 4, 2020 · Mulan is based on a tale that’s been adapted over more than a thousand years, and that has contested origins to begin with. Here, we lay out the film’s complex origins, how the story has...
- Suyin Haynes
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
Sep 7, 2020 · Mulan (“magnolia”) is a legendary character in Chinese literature who is best known in the modern day from the Disney filmed adaptations (1998, 2020). Her story, however, about a young girl who takes her father's place in the army to help save her country, is hundreds of years old.
- Joshua J. Mark
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….
- Elinor Evans
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Sep 4, 2020 · The story of Mulan comes from an ancient Chinese poem called the Ballad of Mulan, which is set in the Northern Wei Dynasty, between 386 to 534 AD.
- Sabrina Barr
Sep 8, 2020 · Hua Mulan's story is told in the Ballad of Mulan, a story set in the North and South dynasties, which was between 420 and 589 CE. While it's possible the gutsy girl could be real, it's...
Sep 4, 2020 · Was Mulan a real person, or simply a character in an ancestral story? Debate remains ongoing. Tour company China Highlights confirmed that a real war happened between the Northern Wei state and a...
