Packet 7: Bonus 15
The narrator imagines herself living in this sort of place while on a houseboat with her German-Australian boyfriend in Xiaolu Guo’s A Lover’s Discourse. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give the Chinese term or two-word English translation for the dwelling places of women in Chinese romantic literature. Guo’s narrator calls a Wáng Shífǔ play titled for this sort of place the Romeo and Juliet of her culture.
ANSWER: xīxiāng (“shee-shyahng”) [or western chamber or west wing or western bower; accept Romance of the Western Chamber or Xīxiāng Jì; accept The Story of the Western Wing, or The West Chamber or Romance of the Western Bower]
[10m] In a Classical Chinese novel, this male character recites romantic lines from Romance of the Western Chamber to his cousin Lín Dàiyù, with whom he is part of a love triangle along with Xuē Bǎochāi (“shway bao-chai”).
ANSWER: Jiǎ Bǎoyù [or Jiǎ Bǎoyù]
[10e] Throughout Dream of the Red Chamber Bǎoyù and his female cousins participate in contests involving this type of literature. The oldest of the Five Classics collects 305 works in this general form.
ANSWER: poetry [or poems; accept songs or odes or hymns; accept Classic of Poetry or Book of Songs or Book of Odes; accept shī]
<Editors, World Literature> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 16.36 | 96% | 50% | 18% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago B | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Indiana | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| MIT | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Northwestern B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Rutgers | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| UC Berkeley B | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Virginia | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 22 | 16.36 | 96% | 50% | 18% |