HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Filial Piety, Mahayana
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Filial piety - kieu is loyal to her family first, rather than to kim. Mahayana buddhism - kieu"s former life, a ghost vista her in the beginning of the tale. Plots and places are base in china; elite young scholars taking examinations to be officials - radiation, diffusion, hybridity; china and northern vietnam was connected through dna, conquests, etc. Tu hai was to be a rebellion leader, kieu viewed him as good. Tu hai let kieu have justice by bringing her torturers and helpers to trial. She lets miss hoan go; hoan let her live as a nun to a buddhist temple. Kieu becomes a buddhist nun twice in her life. Her father tells her to marry kim, so she does.
