Question
Note to players: It may be helpful to spell your answer in a common romanization system for disambiguation. An activist with this family name, the only female Allied representative at the Paris Peace Conference, prevented China from signing the Treaty of Versailles by threatening its delegation with a rosebush branch. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this family name of China’s first female lawyer, a major contributor to the 1931 Civil Code. A widowed Qīng (“cheeng”)-era woman who led the largest pirate fleet in history was known by this family name followed by “Shì” (“shurr”) or “Yī Sǎo.”
ANSWER: Zhèng (“jung”) [accept Zhèng Yùxiù or Cheng Yü-hsiu or Soumay Tcheng; accept Zhèng Shì or Ching Shih or Zhèng Yī Sǎo or Cheng I Sao; prompt on similar-sounding names like Zeng (“dzung”), Chen (“chun”), Chang (“chong”), Zhang (“jong”), Zhong (“joong”), or Chung by asking “can you spell that?”; reject spellings of promptable names] (Among Zhèng Yùxiù’s achievements in the 1931 Civil Code were equal inheritance rights, fiscal and divorce-related rights, and the banning of forced marriage.)
[10h] This late-Qīng activist became a “martyr of feminism” in republican China, partly inspiring the anti-Versailles May Fourth Movement. This woman was executed in 1907 for leading the Ānqìng (“AHN-cheeng”) Uprising.
ANSWER: Qiū (“ch’YOH”) Jǐn [accept Xuánqīng or Jìngxióng or Jiànhú Nǚxiá]
[10e] In 1912, the war hero Táng Qúnyīng (“choon-YEENG”) stormed the Provisional Government’s parliamentary sessions in this city in support of women’s suffrage. Iris Chang’s best-known work chronicles the 1937 “Rape” of this city.
ANSWER: Nánjīng [or Nanking; accept The Rape of Nanking]
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Summary
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| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
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Data
| Cambridge A | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham A | Oxford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford C | KCL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kiel | Durham B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bristol | Oxford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Sheffield | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Warwick | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |