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1	Mulan was first described in an ancient poem written between the 4th to 6th centuries AD. According to this tale, she was a [[ActionGirl female warrior]] who [[SweetPollyOliver disguised herself as a male soldier]] in the {{Imperial Chin\|a}}ese army, secretly taking the place of her {{conscript\|ion}}ed father. After bravely fighting against nomadic hordes along the frontier, she ultimately returned home as a war hero.
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3	The ancient story of Mulan has received multiple modern media adaptations, as listed below.
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5	!!Oldest known version:
6	* '''''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan''''', the earliest known (if not the original) version of the story.
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8	!!Adaptations and Derivative Works:
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10	[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
11	* In the first two Cantonese dubs of ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', [[DubNameChange Nausicaä's name was changed to Mulan]] [[InNameOnly despite the film having little to do whatsoever with the actual story of Mulan]]. Nausicaä's name would be restored in the Blu-ray redub.
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13	[[AC:Films -- Animation]]
14	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' (1998), an [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated film]] made by Creator/{{Disney}}.
15	** [[Franchise/MulanDisney The franchise]] it spawned.
16	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfMulan'' (1998), a Creator/UAVEntertainment {{mockbuster}} version of the [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Disney movie]].
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18	[[AC:Films -- Live-Action]]
19	* ''Film/{{Hua Mulan Joins the Army}}'' (1927), a silent film directed by Li Pingqian.
20	* ''Film/{{Mulan Joins the Army\|1928}}'' (1928), a film directed by directed by Hou Yao.
21	* ''Film/{{Mulan Joins the Army\|1939}}'' (1939), a film written by Ouyang Yuqian and directed by Bu Wancang.
22	* ''[[Film/LadyGeneralHuaMulan Lady General Hua Mu-lan]]'' (1964), a UsefulNotes/HongKong opera musical movie.
23	* ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'' (2009), a Chinese live-action film.
24	* ''Film/{{Mulan\|2020}}'' (2020), [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes live-action remake]] of the [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} 1998 Disney animated film]].
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26	[[AC:Literature]]
27	* ''The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan'', a 2019 young adult novel by Sherry Thomas.
28	* ''Mulan: The True Story'', a historically accurate literary adaptation set in Northern Wei, with only a few errors in adapting, by Daniyar Z. Baidaralin
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30	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
31	* ''Series/{{A Tough Side of a Lady}}'' (1998), a UsefulNotes/HongKong drama series starring Mariane Chan as Hua Mulan.
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33	[[AC:Theatre]]
34	* The Xu Wei play ''The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place'' (c. 1580). It did a lot to flesh out the very bare-bones story laid out in the original ballad, and elements that it invented have often been [[LostInImitation maintained in later adaptations]]. Perhaps most significantly, it was the first work to establish "Hua" as Mulan's surname.
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Context DerivativeWorks / Mulan