In casting waif-like Liu Yifei in its live-action remake, Disney squandered its chance to show a Chinese audience that girls can be both beautiful and tough
Echoing narrow standards of beauty ... Liu Yifei in Mulan.Awith little exposure to Disney until I was eight, the idea of a princess marrying a prince and living happily ever after was something entirely foreign. I was more familiar with the fox and snake spirits in Chinese folklore that transformed into beautiful women and sorceresses, and the cross-dressing heroines ofIt’s no surprise, then, that Disney’s 1998 film Mulan was more relatable than Sleeping.
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