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Retelling the Story of a Woman Warrior in <em>Hua Mulan</em> (花木兰, 2009): Constructed Chineseness and the Female Voice¹

2018; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.13110/marvelstales.32.2.0362

1536-1802

Li,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

Despite its global success, the animated Disney film Mulan (1998) did not win the hearts of many Chinese. In 2009, a Chinese live-action film Hua Mulan came out with the claim of presenting its own Mulan tale to the world. By viewing this film as a dialogical site, the article explores first, the historical continuity of Hua Mulan's ideological values through the construction of her Chineseness; second, the film's unprecedented female voice and, through it, the critical retelling of gender and nation, which have been core issues in Mulan's filmmaking traditions in mainland China; and third, the multivocal space created by a younger generation's views on this film.