{"id":323,"date":"2022-08-15T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjessknight.com\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:38:18","slug":"modern-mulan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjessknight.com\/index.php\/modern-mulan\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Mulan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">&#8216;Modern Mulan&#8217; is a collection based on the folk tale &#8216;The Ballard of Mulan&#8217;; a women who disguised herself as a man to join the Chinese army around 400AD to save her elderly father and family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Looking at feminism and what it means to be a women, alongside ancient Chinese art, paintings, armour, textiles and traditional Chinese opera where cross dressing is common practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">The collection brings in a modern twist looking at if Mulan was a woman living in modern day China, where many younger generations move to the city to support their families in rural areas, often not seeing their families for many years. 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