tl;dr it& #39;s a high budget kids movie with heavy nationalist and militaristic overtones – even rewriting the ancient poem& #39;s protagonist Mulan from a Mongolian ethnic minority to a Han Chinese (majority ethnic group) – starring a cop lover as the main actress https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤡" title="Clownsgesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Clownsgesicht"> send tweet https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1301953198572417030">https://twitter.com/nytimes/s...

Even as a 10 y/o when the cartoon came out, Disney could not sell me a dragon named “Mushu” as representation. (Is that food?)

That said, the ancient poem is a banger and listen to this person unpack it line by line. Most HK kids learned this in school: https://youtu.be/9yR4pz-gYc4 ">https://youtu.be/9yR4pz-gY...

Also a line from the poem:

“I wish to ride a swift mountu2029To take me back to my home.”

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Full English translation here: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/mulan.pdf">https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/...