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Hua Mulan di gu shi

by Wei Jiang, Wei Chiang · 1992

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A bilingual folktale, based on a poem from the Song Dynasty, in which a young girl disguises herself as a man and leads the army of China to victory against the enemy.

Genre
folklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisChinaChinaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 30 pages

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