User:Metal.lunchbox/sandbox

Todo

• Soong May-ling is missing alot of info: lifetime trouble from skin condition, relationship with H.H. Kung and the "China Lobby" (possibly controversial), more detail about her painting. Much more detail about her political work, especially her campaigning in the U.S., relationship with chingling
• remove articles from category:Chinese language, just the stuff that is fairly easy to move to sub-categories, new sub-categories?
• section in character amnesia, response, its not that big of a deal, japan and this why we should change the way we teach, this is not a reason for changing the way we teach.
• new article Huang Yongyu, famous 20th century artist. Plenty of english language sources but no wikipedia article.
• Tianjin Polytechnic University is amazingly bad, maybe start with an infobox
• Feng Zikai's article is almost verbatim copy from here. not very detailed either, needs an image if possible.

• User:Metal.lunchbox/Chu Chung-shing - rewrite

Fermented Tea

While its primarily Chinese, there are some non-chinese fermented teas. That part should be expanded a little, along with more information about the chinese regional varieties, hopefully not just pu-erh, problem is, seems pu-erh is sometimes used generically in English and even Chinese for fermented teas. Governement is said to have recently started controlling the name. That's in the pu-erh article but it should be included in this article from a slightly different angle.

• encyclopedia of food microbiology paragraph about Goishicha and Miang (thailand)
• japanese thesis paper more on goishicha including production process
• Tea:bioactive something mentions Toyama Kurocha, another japanese fermented tea.
• proceedings of tea scientists also mentions Toyama kurocha and helpfully divides fermented teas into Pickled and Piled and then describes what that means.
• Tokushima’s Awabancha, Kouchi’s Goishicha and Toyama’s Kurocha
• volatile constituents of piled tea about kurocha, include when and where its consumed, other details such as production process. cited on agris.fao.org
• Handbook of fermented Functional foods Miang, what it is, where it's made, and summary of production process.
• Utilization of Tropical Foods sez miang is for chewing, makes a whole big economy and also in Myanmar. Production process, which looks to be a slightly different from above, but they cite their source.
• Policies foragricultural sustainability in Northern Thailand, way too detailed account of miang economics
• A-Z encyclopedia of alcohol and drug abuse it's called leppet-so in Myanmar
• Chemistry and applications of green tea. "Leppet tea" pickled tea consumed like a vegetable by Shan tribe in Shan state Myanmar, in northern Thailand where it's called miang, and in Xishuangbanna they say it's called nie-en
• there's already a detailed article about leppet tea at Lahpet, so no need for more than a brief summary with a link to the main article.
• xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden Bulang people there pickle and eat tea.
• lao-mane The Bulang call this stuff miam and the chinese for this pickled tea is 酸茶, but baidu baike suggest this is more commonly the name for a fujian tea, and should probably just not be mentioned.
• batabatacha another fermented japanese tea not mentioned in other article I've read so far, compared to pu-erh, maybe just to put it in the otherwise unfamiliar fermented tea category.

Shen Congwen

Mary Shelley is a really good, if super-long, article about an author, also Chinua Achebe, Murasaki Shikibu

• Shen Congwen: add info about his wife, being one of his students[1], marriage in 1933, kid in 1934[2], returning home to Hunan that year before writing Border town, second kid
• fix shortrefs using that template and notes refs separate sections.
• a sentence about his home
• Border town is his masterpeice, the works sections should acknowledge this and focus on it. of six english books of his work two are border town plus some other stories, a third is a monograph of border town. give it a subsection and expand on it. lithist p.127 is a good source
• nearly as many sources call Long river his best long fiction. should probably write a paragraph about it.
• whether one collection of short stories is more important than another seems pretty arbitrary, should probably be removed.
• Where did he live on the yuan river for 4 months
• other english books appear to exist, like Recollections of West Hunan 1982 Gladys Yang http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12453034?selectedversion=NBD3014735
  • also Yiyun li appears to have completed a translation of Zhang Zhaoho book of letters called "Family Letters of Congwen", but i can't find any talk of the book as a product I can buy on the internets so it aint published yet.
  • also "Family Letters" Alice Xin Liu, same problem, not published.
• copied readable version of that irrelevant writer essay[3]
• finally, reoganize and put stuff into sub-sections, now its just a paragraphed block of text.
• he wasn't hired as a cleaner at the museum, he was made to do that job during the cultural revolution
• stuff not mentioned elsewhere about the post 49 years and details of the political problems immediately before and after [4]
  • never learned mandarin or traditional characters.
• tried to write a politically correct novel in 1961, but couldn't. confirms that malmqist says he would have gotten the prize if he'd lived.
• What did he do in america, where, and when? a few details in Chinese Earth preface.
• new section about his life in the Military
• Kinkley 1987 p.291 (notes for pages 18-19) explains that the dates of Shens early life are not exact, some of the dates and times he describes in his autobiography simply don't add up. it would be useful to add either a footnote or an inline note about this.
• he's Huang Yongyu's uncle or some kind of cousin

Linfen

Linfen is a big enough city to merit some real info on wikipedia. There's some info about it being polluted. The rest of the article is not enough info. History in particular needs to be expanded

• Linfen Campaign, Linfen-Fushan Campaign
• Taosi - Xiangfen Astronomical Observatory. Worlds oldest astronomical observatory according to China daily [5]. others claim other observatories are oldest. Definitely one of the oldest know/found see Pretelescopic astronomy
• 2008 Shanxi mudslide - One of China's deadliest industrial disasters ever occured in Xiangfen county, Linfen on September 8, 2008. After a heavy rainfall a retaining wall of a waste iron-ore resevoir collapsed causing a mudslide which left at least 267 dead. The governor of Shanxi province, Meng Xuenong resigned within days of the disaster. Several local government officials and bureaucrats were soon dismissed and in 2010, 58 people were sentenced on criminal charges relating to the disaster.
• 2007 Chinese slave scandal - The BBC article says Shanxi and that may be a better description of where it took place as the wikipedia article also mentions other prefectures in Shanxi. read the other sources

Changde

Photograph of the Poetry Wall in Changde, Hunan also known as Changde Poem Wall.

• water - [6] article in a book about water and development in the city, mentions polution probably has some useful stats about the water and geography of the city in general.
• demographics section break down population, more details, maybe a table like wp-zh, move pop 2000 down into it.
• look at taoyuan, some stuff can be summarized in Changde article.
• photos for changde
• Baima hu photos
  • baidu baike has a pretty thurough description of changde dialect, but its user submitted so I can't cite it. Like citing another wp article
• tourism section - expand
• conform to WP:ZHC
• translate info from city planning museum
• photo of main city gov building for city administration section
• photo of beef rice noodle in culture section
• dialect only thing useful from chinese version, as far as I can see.
• add refs to administration table

Culture

talk about food, and dialect, also the special culture and history of the Changde/taoyuan uyghurs

• dialect 2 books can be read online, one already in article
  • describe actual geographic extent of the dialect, doesn't perfectly correspond to the political boundaries of prefecture or the city.
  • add simple examples to illustrate phonological difs, like neng, leng.
  • find out what's up with /x/ and /f/
  • describe some more basic differences with standard chinese.
• cant find any english sources about Changde Sixian which aren't pay-to-view scholarly articles.
• Tangyou baba is aparently from changsha
• rumor around town is that Jinshi city has the best beef noodle (牛肉粉) has its own article at Zh

stuff

• Allmusic cannot be used to establish notability, but it can be used as a source for track listing and the like. [7]