Message from lfrlekin

[Anonymous]

The first time I watched Mulan was in May 2007. When we returned from our field study to China my students recommended that I rent this movie. I took their advice and was impressed. Disney’s Mulan is rated G for general audiences and is approximately 88 minutes. Mulan is the heroine in the movie, a Chinese girl who goes to fight in her father’s place, disguised as a male. I am always looking for movies or novels with strong women characters. If you plan to watch this movie in your classroom, require students to take Cornell Notes. Have students write an essay in which they compare and/or contrast “The Ballad of Mulan” read from Images of Women in Chinese Thought and and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty, edited by Robin R. Wang to the movie Mulan. This reading is located in our East Asia and New Media in My Classroom binder under the section Women in East Asia History.