Round 19: Tossup 14

Gǔ Huá’s novel titled for one of these places won an inaugural Máo Dùn Prize. A leader of one of these places is executed in the title story of a collection of scar literature by Chén Ruòxī (10[1])(“rwoh-SHEE”). Aliens decide not to destroy Earth after giving intelligence (-5[1])tests to schoolchildren from one of these title places in the story that initially brought fame to Cixin Liu (-5[1])(“TSUH-shin LYOH”). A group attempts (-5[1])to buy an embalmed corpse (-5[1])to attract tourism to one of (10[1])these places in the novel (10[1])Lenin’s Kisses. The “dream” of one of these places called Dīng titles (10[1])a novel by Yán Liánkē. (10[1])A recurring one of these places is the setting of the novels (10[1])The Guide, Swami and Friends, (10[2]-5[2])and The (10[2])Painter (10[2])of Signs. (10[1])Childhood experience (10[1])in a rural one of these places called Ping’an inspired Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum. For 10 points, (-5[1])in the fiction of R. K. Narayan, what sort of place (10[1])is Malgudi? ■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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