Question
A “record” of a lady’s “journey south” is one of the few 17th-century prose works likely composed in this language without translation from a foreign one. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language whose placeholder equivalent of “John Doe” comes from a novel about a statesman’s illegitimate son, who learns magic, becomes a bandit akin to Robin Hood, and conquers two islands.
ANSWER: Korean [or hangugeo; or chosŏnmal; accept hangul, hangeul, chosŏn’gŭl, or “eonmun”; prompt on hanja; reject “hanmun”] (Clues reference The Record of Lady Sa’s Journey South and The Story of Hong Gildong.)
[10m] Táng dynasty dream tales inspired one of the first Korean novels, an allegory by Kim Man-jung titled for nine of these things. These things title a chapter that precedes the “transition” and Uji chapters in an 11th-century text.
ANSWER: clouds [accept “Vanished into the Clouds” or “Kumogakure”; accept The Nine-Cloud Dream, A Nine-Cloud Dream, The Cloud Dream of the Nine, or Kuunmong] (“Vanished into the Clouds” is a chapter of The Tale of Genji.)
[10e] Yi Sik claimed that Heo Gyun (“huh GYOON”) wrote an anonymous Korean novel about the outlaw Hong Gildong to imitate this Chinese novel, whose 108 Stars of Destiny include “Dragon in the Clouds.”
ANSWER: Water Margin [or Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men Are Brothers, The Marshes of Mount Liáng, Shuǐhǔzhuàn, Shui-hu chuan, Seoi-wu zyun, Suho jeon, or Suikoden] (Gōngsūn Shèng is nicknamed “Dragon in the Clouds.”)
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