CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

“Poem of Mulan”

“Song of Mulan”

The Female Mulan Joins the Army in Place of Her Father

Mu Lan Joins the Army (1903)

Mulan Joins the Army (1939)

Appendix 1. Summaries of Selected Pre-1949 Plays

Appendix 2. Mulan in Three Novels of the Qing Dynasty

Bibliography

Glossary