Question
A poet in this language bucked social norms with irreverent poems such as one likening her to a jackfruit that tells men, “if you want me, pierce me upon your stick.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language. Rhyme is interwoven in couplets of six- and eight-syllable lines in an epic in this language about a woman forced into prostitution to save her family, the Tale of Kiều (“kew”).
ANSWER: Vietnamese [or tiếng Việt] (The rhyme scheme is known as Lục bát.)
[10e] The poet Hồ Xuân Hương (“hoh swun hwung”) and Nguyễn Du’s Kiều undermined this patriarchal system of thought in Vietnam. Jiǎ Bǎoyù (“j’YAH bao-YEW”) scorns this system by not reading its Four Books, like the Analects.
ANSWER: Confucianism [or Rújiào or Ruism; accept Nho giáo] (Jiǎ Bǎoyù appears in The Dream of the Red Chamber.)
[10h] The heroine of a romance in this genre subverts Confucianism by resisting a corrupt magistrate. In one of five surviving tales in this genre, a filial daughter drowns herself to restore her father’s eyesight.
ANSWER: pansori (Those works are The Tale of Chunhyang and The Story of Sim Cheong.)
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Summary
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| MIT | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto C | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LSE | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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