Comparing ourselves to the best pianist, for example, may be discouraging and unhelpful, so we might compare ourselves to lesser versions of the ideal instead.
It can be interesting to compare her original poems as she wrote them with the versions that were published in her " lifetime, " while she was still alive.
And it was only when an editor suggested that I compare it to some past ones that these things started to jump out and the changes started to jump out.
As Xue Wei’s play is widely recognised as the true story of Mulan, we will use parts of it to help fill out the story when comparing to the Disney version.