Hua Mulan

An Unexpected Warrior: The Legend of Hua Mulan The world knows Hua Mulan as Disney’s tough, yet pose warrior princess created in the 1990s. What most of the world does not know is that Disney based his hit movie off of the Medieval Chinese Legend: The Legend of Hua Mulan (Disney 2). Both the movie and the legend portray a strong and independent woman who dares to be a warrior. The Legend of Hua Mulan teaches its readers that breaking the barriers of society can be a good thing and that gender stereo types should not limit a female’s sense of empowerment. The Legend of Hua Mulan was written about a woman named Hua or Fa Mulan in 400 A.D, Medieval China (Disney 1). Like the movie, Mulan inspires to be a male warrior. She is constantly…

In the book Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston 's mother Brave Orchid tells many stories about her past that she believes have lessons behind them, lessons that Kingston should learn from and can help shape her. Her mother wants Kingston to follow the role of a Chinese woman. Brave Orchid believes Kingston should learn something from the stories and in some cases not do what was done. While telling these stories she tells Kingston what she should know about them to shape her into…

She points out that Disney has made changes in attempt to recreate the princess image. For instance, an ethnic flare was added when Mulan, Pocahontas, and Aladdin came out. Merida was also added to the Disney roster to change the stereotype inferring that a princess needs a prince. By including the opposing side to the article, Bartyzel strategically wins over the “on the fence” audience. She then adds emotional appeal by incorporating articles by Peggy Orenstein and Psychotherapist Mary…

In past the Chinese history, many Chinese peoples had been seen already up and down. Many long time ago, in the China some Qing dynasty ruled out and their harassment, unlawful mode of behavior, and they were corrupted from top to bottom. In between, country foundation was loose from the tremor corruption. After this era, China gave some powerful great men to the country. His name was Deng Xiaoping and his revolutionary thoughts, ideology, legendry image to help in china become great. In term…

Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China, Chinese foreign relations, ideology concerning domestic policy, perspectives of dissent, and the legitimacy of the CPC. Mao’s death left a power vacuum that yielded a struggle amongst Hua Guofeng, the Gang of Four, and Deng Xiaoping, in which Mao’s…

After World War II, China fell into a civil war, and came out with no centralized government. Mao Tse Tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), began to bring China back onto its feet. When Mao died, Deng Xiaoping, leader of the Nationalists, did what he believed to be best for all of China. While both of these men wanted what they thought would be best for China, their techniques of doing so varied tremendously. Both Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiaoping vary in their ideal visions for modern…

Mao is still to this day treated like a hero to the country of China. Nevertheless, in Mao’s later years he became slightly less harsh and did improve the lives of many of the Chinese. For example, Mao helped raise the status of women, improved literacy, increased the amount of people going to school, and even enhanced health care in China (“Mao Tse-Tung Biography”). Though, later in his life, he decided to try to close all of the schools and redesign the curriculum so that the youth would not…

Discourse Malcolm Gladwell says, "Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur" The famous line “I took the one less travelled by” from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not taken” is attributed as being one of the most misunderstood phrases in modern literature. The line which endures the place on the tongue of many hopeful fathers is really an indictment of Frosts anticipation of remorse of his future self - having taken the road less…

confess to crime and then humiliated them in public. Later those people were sent to labor camps. Two notable people against the cultural revolution were Zhou Enki and Deng Xiaoping. The cultural revolution ended when Mao died in 1976. Before the death of Mao, Hua Guofeng, was designated to take Mao’s place. Hua Guofeng only lasted for two years. During this time the battle between Hardliners and Reformists grew as each group battled for power. In 1978, reformists Deng Xiaoping became the leader…

The term is fitting. A decade when the only true authority in China was fear, the Ten Years of Chaos (better known as the Cultural Revolution) found its victims in millions of people, creating a dark and bitter age that continues to live in infamy. However idealistic the goals of the Cultural Revolution were, there was no firm plan for its execution. Terrifying purges, torture and brutality were simply enacted on the whims of the Chinese communist dictator, Mao Zedong, and the brainwashed youth…