Mulan

Proper noun

Mulan (countable and uncountable, plural Mulans)

1. A female warrior from Chinese folklore.
2. A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
   • Vice Chairman (Lin Chun-pu) of the Mulan County Revolutionary Committee, Vice Chairman (Li Te-tung) of the revolutionary committee of a commune in Payen County[…]also spoke. They related their experience in grasping revolution to stimulate production, as well as in pushing up a high tide in spring...1969 February 13 [1969 February 12], “Harbin Mobilization Rally Hails Mao's Line”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 30, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin...
   • Not only were the Korean Communists numerous, but their influence extended over a wide territory ranging from Chientao in the southeast to Ilan and Mulan in the southern part of Heilungkiang Province, where the Koreans had formed communities of their own.1983, Chong-Sik Lee, Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922–1945, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 222
3. A township in Huangpi district, Hubei, China.
4. A river in Fujian, China.
   • THE FOLLOWING TEXT commemorates the reconstruction and expansion of the main temple of a local cult in Putian District, Fujian Province, located on China’s southeast coast. The god, known by the time the inscription was composed in 1138 as the Duke of Manifest Kindness (Xianhui hou), was the...2005, “Fang Lüe, "Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response"”, in Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawaiʻi Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, Honolulu...