Maxine Hong Kingston’s special background makes the novel being so unique in cultural value and distinctive feminism sense that the work have already been widely acknowledged in the American literary circles。

Chinese American scholar Lan Dong analyzes the adaption of Mulan legend, from a history perspective, which help readers not only to understand female living situation, heroism, parent-child relationship and "filial piety" value in ancient Chinese Southern Song Dynasty, but to sense the Chinese American women's survival, identity crisis and cultural transplant in the 21th century under the global cultural evolution。 “Cross-Cultural Palimpsest of Mulan: Iconography of The Woman Warrior from Premodern China to Asian America” is the thesis of Lan Dong focus on the Mulan female image。 The image of Mulan is not a case, but a typical one, who provides a reference for the women who are in oppression or those who are brave enough to fight back。 Deborah Zak Jeanne shows great appreciation toward Lan Dong’s idea。 She remarks that Sino-US culture shape Mulan with unique identity, who is different from traditional Chinese woman emphasis on "filial piety"来*自-优=尔,论:文+网www.chuibin.com

(Deborah, 2002)。 The woman warrior shows the awakening of female consciousness, appealing to the equality of women, and being stop to succumb to the patriarchal society。

1。3 Theoretical Framwork

Intertextuality is practical and traditional to do the research of the relationship between a text and its original ones。 Kristiva (1986) calls this characteristic of the text "intertextuality", that is, "inter text""。 She points out : any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another。 The notion of intertextuality replaces that of intersubectivity, and poetic language is read as least double(Kristiva, 1986:36)。 In short, "intertextuality" is usually used to refer to the relationship between two texts or the occurrence of two or more texts。 It has been widely used in the practice of literary criticism, structuralism, semeiology, post structuralism。 Intertextuality helps readers to understand the text, to see the interaction between different groups, to figure out the ideology and the purpose of communication that the author attempts to achieve。 The conections of the intertextual can only be verified and pinned down in the very texts。 "Any specific discourse, on the surface seems to self-contained, do not have any contact with other texts , but in fact, any text is pieced together by the speech, any discourse is the absorption and transformation of another"(Kristeva, 1986:37)。 Fowler said “intertextuality likes the parchment which have been scraped and use again, cause you can easily see previous text through the new one” (Shi, 2013)。