Disney's Chinese epic Mulan has proved to be a flop with audiences in the animated heroine's birthplace, according to reports.

BBC: Chinese unimpressed with Disney's Mulan

Yet, like a Jane Austen heroine sworn to resist a seducer's overtures, none of these gentlemen seem to be in LSE's books.

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Do not be taken in by her pigtails and her bandy legs, here is a heroine as intelligent as she is wild, a heroine anyone would follow to a new world.

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That would be "Revolution, " which includes -- you guessed it -- a heroine with a crossbow.

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