Mulan is based on a tale that’s been adapted over more than a thousand years, and that has contested origins to begin with.

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

The story of Mulan, the young Chinese woman who goes to war pretending to be male so that her father will not be drafted into the military, has been a part of Chinese culture for 1800 years or so.

Many of us growing up, would fixate over Disney films. Mine were The Little Mermaid and Mulan. I wore out the VHS tape of Mulan growing up. I told myself I was obsessed with the aesthetics and the ...