Mixed Reaction To Mulan
Song of Mulan, the ballad written 1,500 years ago by an anonymous Chinese poet, has inspired countless plays, novels and poems over the centuries. It is part of many school textbooks that children in China have grown up learning.
In 1998, Disney made an animation film Mulan on the young woman who disguised herself as a warrior and joined the king’s army in her aged father’s place to fight invaders and safeguard the nation.
The story also attracted Niki Caro, the New Zealand director known for her Oscar-nominated 2002 film , an engrossing drama about a Maori girl who becomes the chief of a tribe where according to the Maori
