Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 12/13/2002 news item <b><a href="http://www.andersonsc.com/stories/story_page.asp?id=70933" target="_blank">AndersonOnline: A whole new world: Disney movies tend to differ from the original story</a></b> <I>Anderson Online</I> compares Disney's versions of <I>Pocahontas</I> and <I>Mulan</I> with their historical accounts.
Originally Posted By Inkan1969 That's a bizarre coincidence. I just got a new job at Clemson University and I'll be moving there next month. I was planning on subscribing to the Anderson Independent-Mail as my daily paper ( Anderson is the closest city to Clemson ). This is the paper's website. Anyhow, it wasn't much of an article. It just repeated stuff we've known about for years. - Inkan <a href="http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jfl/intro.html" target="_blank">http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jfl /intro.html</a>
Originally Posted By basil fan Is Mulan really a historical character? I thought she was more of a legend like King Arthur or Robin Hood, someone who might've been a real person. So You Wanna Be a Collector... <a href="http://www15.brinkster.com/wtstsgalor/collector.html" target="_blank">http://www15.brinkster.com/wts tsgalor/collector.html</a>
Originally Posted By Jim It is thought that she was real, but I don't know if anyone can ever know for sure. Chinese folktales are a unique mix of realism and fantasy, legend and reality.