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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009): Chinese Culture
Introduction
The myth of Mulan depicts an ordinary woman, disguised as a man who serves in the
Chinese military in the place of her enfeebled father, rises to heroine status. The cinematic reimagination of the legend, Hua Mulan directed by Jingle Ma in 2009, represents a national myth.
In the past, Disney reimagined Mulan in 1998, propelling the myth to international recognition.
However, Disney’s version served to reinforce the leadership of the studio as a global popular
culture company. However, Jingle Ma’s Mulan: Rise of a Warrior accentuates a national
patriotism which can be traced to China’s peaceful rise. Moreover, how Ma portrays Mulan in
Mulan: Rise of a Warrior serves to situate the film in the post feminism representation of female
lead characters, a phenomenon that has become popular in Chinese cinema (Mulan 5). Mulan:
Rise of a Warrior succeeds in inscribing a politicized conversation of patriotism, transforming
the attempt of the Chinese culture to retake its cultural legacies.
The Ballad of Mulan is a fictionalized historical figure, circulated during Chinese 420-58
AD, depicting the titular character as an ordinary woman who rose to prominence in a bid to
spare her enfeebled father from fighting in a war. Mulan takes her father’s place in war disguised
as a man and bravely fights for a decade, returning home as a victor. The history of the character

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has sustained various textual and cultural variations. The Chinese have written the Hua Mulan
story to transcend it beyond time to contemporary audiences. The Woman Warrior was adopted
by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1975 as a fictional autobiography of an Asian American woman,
the Disney Company successfully animated Mulan in 1998, propelling the character to a
transnational status, each incorporating enri...