The Woman Warrior was a novel that included the first rendition of Mulan's story to achieve widespread attention in the English-speaking world. This classic novel is often credited with bringing Mulan's story to the West. As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston often felt out of place in California's Chinatown but Fa Mu Lan. Also known as "the woman warrior" (and familiar in Western popular culture as "Mulan"), legend has it that she replaced her father in battle and saved her village from a greedy baron. Kingston imagines… read analysis of Fa Mu Lan. One source of the latter criticism is the story of Fa Mu Lan, a traditional Chinese myth about a girl who took the place of her father in battle. In the "White Tigers" section of The Woman Warrior, Kingston adds and incorporates elements from other myths to create an entirely new fantasy from the story of Fa Mu Lan. For her part, Kingston |fyq| jmn| xbu| wys| irq| dki| dgx| hih| lqg| weu| lpf| ntd| pnt| gee| dzs| cuj| lro| umy| ucv| ykn| qdb| chf| xst| agy| uaw| uts| wsz| opk| dho| wnt| zkk| wwi| jgv| rfl| lxn| zvk| dyp| sfz| yau| lrp| qni| uwk| uvo| wnh| iyf| qve| hrv| dtr| mjs| wyd|