However, not all experts are in agreement. Some scholars have argued that this final line stands in stark contrast against ChinaвЂ™s patriarchal culture, thus supporting the notion that the Ballad of Mulan was written during an era when Confucian values temporarily lost their sway over Chinese thought.

The Ballad concludes by commenting, вЂњWhen a pair of rabbits run side by side, who can distinguish male from female?вЂќ Upon returning, she is offered a prominent position but turns it down her only request is that she be sent home to her family.ДЄfter Mulan is reunited with her parents and she has resumed her feminine appearance, her comrades are shocked to discover that she is a woman-for the twelve years that they fought together, none of them had suspected anything. Because Mulan has no elder brother, she is resolved to take her fatherвЂ™s place. The version that was finally put into writing begins with Mulan sitting in front of her loom, weeping over the fact that her father has just received his conscription orders. This copy of the Ballad was penned by Song dynasty calligrapher Mi Fu in 1094 AD (Public domain). But as an anonymous and undated work, very little can be said about it with certainty. The Balad most likely began as oral tradition, and was passed down for over a century until it was finally preserved in written form during the Tang dynasty. Most likely composed during the era of Northern Wei (around 400 AD), this one poem ended up inspiring countless retellings for centuries to come. The Ballad of Mulan is the oldest known version of MulanвЂ™s story. These would be the trials referred to by Meng Po.Northern Wei (386вЂ“534 AD) The Ballad of Mulan (жњЁииѕ) The story would then mostly play out the same with the huns attacking. But Mulan would enter the city as Ping and be revealed formally as a woman. My guess is that things would more or less continue as they did in the film. A little thing or two from Mulan 2 is also added in. It involves a few things on ShangвЂ™s family as well as MulanвЂ™s. Exploring some of the characters more and Mulan as a person. As an only child, perhaps in many ways Mulan was always a son and daughter to her family. We caught a glimpse of this at the start of the film. It also gives thought to what Mulan was always like growing up. But it has a good amount of focus on Mulan and the fact sheвЂ™s intelligent which is what makes her a good soldier. This was a slightly odd route to go down and slightly resembles the plot for Hercules. Unlike the others, this doesnвЂ™t exactly take the entire story off in a totally different direction, but is more like a story within a story, if one small thing had changed. Or it could have been that ShangвЂ™s wound was worse than MulanвЂ™s. ItвЂ™s not clear but maybe they couldnвЂ™t get Shang help because they didnвЂ™t have a say. As Captain he had that power, but here Chi-Fu took control. Because Mulan was unconscious in the film, we donвЂ™t know if this only happened because Shang demanded it. Although the next scene is what happened in the film, it follows with Mulan and the others fighting to save ShangвЂ™s life.Д¬uriously, although in the film they easily got a medic to save Mulan, that doesnвЂ™t seem possible here. In the film, Shan-Yu took a swipe at Mulan and hit her in the side. This starts off at the time Mulan, as Ping, fires a rocket at the mountain and causes an avalanche to take out the Huns. When I got it half price it seemed like a risk worth taking. I was very unsure whether to read this one in case it ruined Mulan for me in some way. Old as Time was slightly better and not quite as tragic in the end. A Whole New World and Once Upon a Dream just seemed like hard work and went down dark paths. This is something that was remarked in Goodreads reader reviews.Д«efore, IвЂ™ve struggled with Twisted Tales. Elizabeth Lim is of Chinese origin, as Reflection tells an alternate version of Mulan, it may be that it just felt right to have her tell the story of a Chinese character.

Perhaps Disney have taken the criticism seriously and opted for someone new. It could be Liz Braswell did not want to continue the series. Exactly why they changed for this one IвЂ™m not certain. The whole idea, the series, is owned by Disney and they commission writers for each book. This is the fourth iqn the Twisted Tales franchise, but it is the first not written by Liz Braswell.

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