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The next Mulan movie wouldn't show up until 1964 when Shaw Brothers produced Lady General Hua Mulan, which remade this story as a Peking Opera, effectively making it the first Mulan musical before the 1998 Disney cartoon. Mulan Joins the Army is currently in the public domain and has been posted on YouTube The Modern Chinese[...]

Hua Mulan has been a mythical figure in Chinese folklore for over a thousand years, a loyal woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in a war in her ailing father's place, Mulan is a contradictory celebration of Confucian principles that keep women down, and she has to defy the Patriarchy in order[...]