lamphoera:

coming from your local chinese american to you: any discussion surrounding either of the disney mulan movies cannot focus on a nebulous “authenticity” (please ask yourself: what is authenticity? who does it serve? who decides what is or isn’t authentic?) rather than whose voices are heard, whose stories are told, and how culture is framed

you are going to get better mileage out of your words by critiquing the heart of the issue: the nationalistic themes of the movie (and ironically mulan wasn’t originally a han story at all so if you REALLY want to talk about staying faithful to the source you can start here, it would definitely piss the CCP off – and by the way this story has been adapted numerous times over the centuries and interpreted in myriad different ways to fit people’s agendas) and the lack of chinese contributers on the writing staff