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Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. In a play, one of these characters sings a song beginning “Above the island, the icy moon rises high,” before drinking heavily upon being abandoned in the Hundred Flower Pavilion. A signature role of Méi Lánfāng was a character of this type who, (10[2])after being surrounded by Liú Bāng’s (“l’yoh bahng”) forces, slits their (10[1])throat with the sword of the “Hegemon-King” (10[1])Xiàng Yǔ (10[1]-5[1])(“sh’YANG yew”). The actor Chéng Diéyī (“chung d’yay-yee”) crossdresses as one of these people named Yú in a 1985 Lilian Lee novel titled for (10[1])this (10[2])role. Bái Jūyì’s Song of Everlasting Sorrow (10[1])inspired plays about one of these people named Yáng (10[1])Yùhuán (10[1]-5[1])and her romance with Xuánzōng (-5[1])(“shwan-tsong”) of Táng. In The Good Earth, Wang Lung gifts (10[1])O-Lan’s pearls to one of these people (10[1])named Lotus. For 10 points, (10[1])a Peking opera (10[1])and Chén Kǎigē (“chen kye-guh”) film are titled for a “Farewell” (10[3])to (10[1])one of what people, the unmarried sexual partners of Chinese noblemen? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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