Inside the Round Tulou Houses You Saw in ‘Mulan’

If you saw the trailer for Disney’s upcoming “Mulan” movie, you might have noticed the mysterious round fortresses that Mulan calls home. The only problem is the actual Mulan probably didn’t live in one. We went to these houses, known as tulou in Chinese, met the people who live there, and learned about their history.

0:00 Is this Mulan’s home?
0:35 Where tulou are found
0:54 Meet Grandpa Jiang
2:33 How they’re built
3:20 Inside a tulou
4:17 Grandpa shows us around
5:22 Disney’s cultural appropriation?

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Producer: Jessica Novia
Narrator: Victoria Ho
Videographer: Zhang Yiqian
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Animators: Ray Ngan and Victor Pena
Mastered: Joel Roche

Music: Audio Network

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