The Woman Worrier by Maxine Hong

In the Maxine article, The Woman Worrier woman are described to be overall useless to society. One girl who had searched the mountains found two elders to help her on her journey to defend and protect her village. After completing many tough and tedious tasks this now young woman goes back to her home town on a mission to get rid of the bandits of the land. She dresses as a man and recruits many soldiers to fight with her against the towns enemies. Throughout the article the protagonist is all powerful when she in in-feminine but at the end when she admit so to speak to her femininity she loses that powerful touch. The end of the article explains that this one Chinese woman felt like she and this protagonist had a lot in common. Although I did not see any such similarities the author explains that the common bound between her and the hero is that fact that both of them have revenge of their backs. To me personally this article was a bit challenging to understand because of the many foreign concepts involved. I actually didn't understand the meaning of the writing until the very end when the author explains her circumstance as a Chinese immigrant. I have a lot of questions concerning this piece; Why does the hero of the story leave her family in the first place? Whats her inspiration? And do Chinese woman (of that time) look up to characters who literally strip away their femininity in order to gain power? In that society can a woman not be a powerful figure in society? I know such stories usually have a moral and I feel as thought the moral is some what confusing because of the ending.  The moral to me is that, woman in any society have to change there sexuality almost to be able to do extraordinary things, although I don't agree I do feel that this is the moral.