Talk:Fa Mulan/@comment-25041621-20150311221151/@comment-1894786-20150608062952

Well, there's records of women dressing up as men in the American Civil War of the 1800's and that's largely ignored. Safe to assume there's been Mulan-type women in every society and every era. Though I do think that little element was exclusive to the movie, because in the original poem, everyone finds out Mulan is a woman and she never gets threatened with execution (in fact, in some versions she kills herself because the emperor wanted her as a concubine, which Mulan pretends to be during the climax of the movie.)