Yu Hua - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The film adaptation of a novel by this author adds a hopeful ending unlike the original ending, in which Xu Fugui (“shoo foo-gway”) is left alone with a cow he names “Fugui.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author who also described Xu Sanguan’s (“shoo san-gwen’s”) efforts to support his family through blood donations in Chronicle of a Blood Merchant.

ANSWER: Yu Hua [prompt on Yu]

[10m] Zhang Yimou (“jong ee-MOH”), who adapted Yu Hua’s To Live, also adapted this novel by Mo Yan about a Shandong farming family during World War II.

ANSWER: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China [accept Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú]

[10e] Most of Yu Hua’s novels are set during this period in Chinese history. This period spawned scar literature when restrictions on criticism of this period were lifted after the death of Mao Zedong.

ANSWER: Cultural Revolution [accept The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; accept Wénhuà dàgémìng]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	9	21.11	89%	89%	33%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	78%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	75%	63%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCSD C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Carleton University	10	10	10	30
Guelph	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20
Western C	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Brock	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Waterloo A	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Queen's	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
UBC A	Western A	10	10	10	30
Central Florida A	Florida B	10	10	10	30
Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Virginia	NC State B	0	10	10	20
Duke	NC State A	0	0	10	10
James Madison A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
James Madison B	VCU	0	0	0	0
Liberty C	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
William and Mary	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Northwestern D	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Indiana C	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	Yale	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
MIT	Brown	10	10	10	30
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Claremont	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Missouri B	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Minnesota A	10	10	10	30
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Bruin	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
UCL	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
Cardiff	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Montpellier	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
City St. George's	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Georgetown	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
Penn State	RIT	10	10	10	30
LSE	Durham	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester	0	10	10	20