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Outside Lecture 3: Transitions Of Mulan's Story '

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Outside Lecture 3: Transitions of Mulan’s Story I attended a lecture on the Transitions of Mulan’s Story by Mei Han, an instructor at the Confucius Institute of Chinese Language and Culture. The lecture followed Mulan, a girl who impersonates her father and joins the military, from when she is first referenced in 386 AD to present day. The main four versions that Han discusses are: “The Ballad of Mulan”, Zhong xiao yong lie Mulan quno thuong, and Mulan joins the army. “The Ballad of Mulan”, written during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-539 AD) is an anonymous narrative poem that laid the foundation for all other versions. The poem offered future authors liberties to interpret Mulan’s life, as it did not depict Mulan’s ethnicity, military life,
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