Fa Mu Lan: Equal Rights for Women in China

Despite repression of Chinese women, they have still overcome it occasionally and achieve incredible achievements. Some work, help the family life, others are extremely glorious in efforts to preserve chastity and family honor, and others have achieved more influential accomplishments. The farmland trained for fifteen years to become a female fighter. She grows as strong as men, but it gets faster and more elegant. After dressing up as a man to save his father from the draft, she organized an army.

Famulan - A heroic female warrior from a traditional Chinese legend, a brave orchid was originally described to Kingston in a conversation story. The farmer represents both the ideal of a Chinese woman as an affectionate mother and wife, and the source of power and self-reliance. Kingston is closely related to women's warrior, and in the "White Tigers", the first person reconsidered her story as if he were a warrior. Kingston also contrasts Famran 's great achievement and victory with her own disappointment in life.

Farmland is Kingston's imaginary self and legend. She left her village and was trained to become a warrior with her leader and elderly couple. She came home and fought with the baron who took her brother and her husband. She disguised himself as a man and eventually led the whole country to victory and started a new dynasty. With Kingston's imagination, Famulan can become a savior of her people, independent warrior, she makes her own choice, but still returns to her mother and wife's life.

Elderly couple - The old couple of "White Tigers" trained Mulan's fighting skills and survival skills at the top of the mountain. The old couple are sub-gods - farmlands think they were in history for hundreds of years - and, for women fighters she seems to be more parents. Ts'ai Yen - 175 The Chinese poet born in AD is the title of the last chapter. The Ts'ai yen was caught by barbarians, forced to fight them, and regained the song of the title of her people, the nationality of Han, "the eight Tenstas for barbarian reeds". She provided a metaphor for Kingston's own biography project - "barbarian land" to bring her song back to her - and a common conversation story