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Nguyễn Du made use of the plot of a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, "Jīn Yún Qiào" (), known in Vietnamese pronunciation of Chinese characters as "Kim Vân Kiều". The original, written by an otherwise unknown writer under the pseudonym "Qīngxīn Cáirén" ( "Pure-Hearted Man of Talent"), was a straightforward romance, but Nguyễn Du chose it to convey the social and political upheavals at the end of the 18th century in Vietnam.