It is so much more than that, especially for Chinese diaspora like myself. I went into this book knowing nothing but the basic premise and I have to say that describing Spin The Dawn as "Mulan meets Project Runway" feels like such a disservice. Publishing Elizabeth Lim's Spin The Dawn is a great start to making things right. With the 2020 movie, they're trying to peddle the same narrative without any Chinese people on the writing team. There were a lot more issues pointed out in this post here. They twisted a legend about collectivism and Confucian filial piety into a basic American feminist story riddled with individualism. Disney made a big show of the gender reveal and robbed Mulan of her autonomy. She revealed herself of her own volition after the war was over, her comrades were like "cool", and everything was fine. The issue was never that Mulan was a woman-it's that she lied to the emperor. Disney makes a big deal about how she’s going to be killed because she's a woman in a war and what a Big Meanie Sexist the Country of China™ is, but like.we do have a history of female warriors.
Every choice she makes is to show how far she'd go to protect them and, when offered a reward for her services, she simply asks for a camel to take her home and be a weaver girl again. In the original, Mulan is a weaver girl who goes to war to protect her father (who is too old) and brother (who is too young).
As I grew more experienced, I realize that I was grasping for crumbs. It was the only representation in mainstream media I had. GIF: Cristina from Grey's Anatomy screaming, "Somebody sedate me!"
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