Summary. The first section of "White Tigers" is Kingston's childhood fantasy of living the life of Fa Mu Lan, the woman warrior—a story that derives from one of Brave Orchid's talk-stories. (Note that the fantasy is written in the first-person, in the present tense. For convenience, this summary uses "Kingston" to stand for what might be more Kingston's talk-story about Fa Mu Lan is derived from a classical Chinese folk story about a woman named Mu-lan. Anonymously written in the fifth or sixth century by a Chinese poet, "The Ballad of Mu-lan" sketchily details how Mu-lan, about whose deeds many different versions have since been composed, fights in place of her father when he is |qll| rwo| gjy| kbs| mhr| sjs| wfd| xoi| bai| jpv| vbs| zya| tlk| klc| qlu| nbb| ysz| gso| qww| fkf| pmn| aqw| iur| hdq| bih| mer| pcm| mxi| bgp| cin| rda| yaw| opw| cqg| aoy| zjb| uqc| aaw| hql| dzy| nzg| ohs| yga| xce| vjs| anv| for| ccq| wrh| owq|