Question
At 600 pages in Gladys Yang’s translation, this novel is the shortest of the six novels canonized for Western audiences by H. T. Hsia (“shah”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel by Wu Jingzi that mocks single-minded takers of the Civil Service Exam.
ANSWER: The Scholars [or Rúlín Wàishǐ; accept Unofficial History of the Forest of Scholars]
[10m] Though written in a later dynasty, The Scholars is set during this Chinese dynasty. Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms were written during the rule of this dynasty.
ANSWER: Ming Dynasty [or Dà Míng]
[10e] In The Scholars, this novel’s opening is parodied when Wang Mien watches stars of the “Scholars” constellation fall to earth. This Ming Dynasty novel follows a group of 108 bandits called the Stars of Destiny.
ANSWER: Water Margin [or Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers or Shui Hu Zhuan]
<TH, World Literature>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 33% | 50% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 60% | 80% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 13% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| UCLA | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Case Western A | Case Western B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan State | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Kenyon | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| William & Mary | Duke | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UNC B | Liberty A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Liberty C | UNC D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Liberty B | UNC C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia A | Wake Forest | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Missouri S&T | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Wisconsin A | Carleton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Winona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford B | Georgetown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa | Notre Dame B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Missouri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UW A | Alberta | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UBC | UW B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU A | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas A | TAMU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas B | ASU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Louisville A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge A | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Cambridge D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford C | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Sheffield | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU C | Southampton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Haverford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | John Jay College | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland B | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU B | George Washington A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Vassar A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Durham | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell D | ESF A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT A | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |