An early commentator on this work had a pseudonym meaning “Inkstone Studio.” John Minford helped complete the seminal English translation of this work by David Hawkes. A significant dispute in this work’s namesake “-ology” centers on whether its last forty chapters were a later addition to its first eighty chapters. Feminist criticism of this work often contrasts the female-dominated space of the Grand View Garden with the patriarchal outside world and discusses the 12 Beauties of Jīnlíng. In this novel, the Disenchantment Fairy is visited by a priest and a monk carrying the protagonist, who is reincarnated as a boy with a piece of jade in his mouth. For 10 points, the tragic love story of Jiǎ Bǎoyù and Lín Dàiyù is detailed in what classic Chinese novel? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 121.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 13 | 77% | 0% | 15% | 53.30 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 33% | 77.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 14% | 65.25 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 38% | 92.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 81.78 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 70.33 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.80 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 89.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 76.92 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 71.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 72.17 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.25 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
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| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota C | 11 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Huntsville B | 11 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Southampton A | 11 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley F | 25 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Imperial A | 25 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McMaster A | 27 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia B | 27 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Amherst A | 27 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto Metropolitan | 28 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | MSU B | 28 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 28 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto E | 33 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Clemenceau | 33 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 33 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | McGill D | 33 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 33 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Oxford B | 33 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Guelph B | 34 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU C | 34 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 36 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins A | 36 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 37 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland A | 37 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Clemson B | 38 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Alabama B | 38 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Swarthmore A | 39 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 39 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 39 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Durham A | 39 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown B | 40 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia B | British Columbia C | 40 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Ohio | 40 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Bristol A | 40 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Waterloo | 42 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Mason B | 42 | -5 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Columbia B | 44 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU B | 44 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Rose State | 44 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | UTD B | 44 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Bowdoin A | 46 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Washington B | 47 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 48 | -5 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | McMaster B | 49 | -5 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | McMaster C | 49 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | George Mason C | 49 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU D | 49 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | OSU D | 51 | -5 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | MIT B | 51 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Yale B | 53 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 55 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota B | 59 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 64 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester A | 69 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | UCSC | 76 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Virginia A | 76 | -5 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brown C | 76 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | BU | 78 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | UAB A | 79 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | Kenyon A | 81 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 82 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Carleton | 82 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Durham B | 82 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 90 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's B | 93 | -5 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 96 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 96 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington A | 99 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern C | 99 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee A | 104 | -5 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | NYU B | 104 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Truman State | 104 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts A | 104 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UTD A | 104 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Queen's A | 107 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 107 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | FIU | 107 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Maryland D | 107 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Washington A | 107 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Tulsa | 107 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell-DII | 107 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC A | 108 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto J | 110 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Roanoke | 114 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Liberty B | 116 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 117 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Imperial C | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU B | 118 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Auburn B | 122 | 10 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | Iowa | 125 | 10 |
| Jackson Hatcher | Nebraska | Macalester A | 126 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | LSE A | 127 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph A | 128 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto I | 128 | 0 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | McGill B | 128 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | FSU | 128 | 0 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | ERAU A | 128 | 0 |
| Ethan Perrault | UF E | UCF A | 128 | 0 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | UF B | 128 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF E | 128 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | USF | 128 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | Melbourne B | 128 | 0 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | CWRU A | 128 | 0 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Kenyon B | 128 | 0 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Pitt B | 128 | 0 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | MSU A | 128 | 0 |
| Martin Howey | Kenyon B | CWRU B | 128 | 0 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Pitt C | 128 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Tusculum | 128 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | NC State | 128 | 0 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | South Carolina B | 128 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Tennessee B | 128 | 0 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 128 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | VCU A | 128 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland C | 128 | 0 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | Penn A | 128 | 0 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Lehigh B | 128 | 0 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Columbia C | 128 | 0 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Rowan A | 128 | 0 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Lehigh A | 128 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Rutgers B | 128 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | William Woods | 128 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Carleton | 128 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 128 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota A | 128 | 0 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Nebraska | 128 | 0 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | St. Thomas | 128 | 0 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin | 128 | 0 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | BC B | 128 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Amherst B | 128 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Dartmouth | 128 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Alberta B | 128 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville A | 128 | 0 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Mississippi State A | 128 | 0 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee A | 128 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 128 | 0 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge D | Bristol B | 128 | 0 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Cambridge D | 128 | 0 |
| Jack Didsbury | Durham B | LSE B | 128 | 0 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Lancaster A | 128 | 0 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Southampton B | 128 | 0 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | ESF | 128 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton B | 128 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | RIT B | 128 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Rochester | 128 | 10 |