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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Yang Li


 * Article Evaluation
 * Yang Li is a female stand-up comedian and scriptwriter from Mainland China, who "addresses controversial gender issues using a style unfamiliar to many Chinese viewers—stand-up comedy" (Feng and Wang). Yang sparked a lot of controversies with her punchline—“How can he look so average and still have so much confidence?” (May) Yang received support from female netizens while being criticised that Yang's claim was untenable and deliberately demeaning to men. Once a long-standing but niche voice in China, the #MeToo movement from Hollywood came to China in 2018 and created a wave of complaints from women against sexual harassment and assailants that brought women's rights to the forefront of attention and discussion like never before. At the same time, however, feminists are facing increasing "backlash" on the internet. There is no existing Wikipedia article of Yang Li, the female comedian.


 * Sources
 * Source 1: Feng, Zhaoyin, and Yitsing Wang. “Yang Li: The 'Punchline Queen' Who Offended Chinese Men.” BBC News, BBC, 25 Jan. 2021, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55744860.
 * Source 2: “Stand-up Is Booming in China, with Women Centre-Stage.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, 9 Jan. 2021, www.economist.com/china/2021/01/09/stand-up-is-booming-in-china-with-women-centre-stage.
 * Source 3: May, Tiffany. “She Mocked Men's Bluster. Then Came the Complaints.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world/asia/male-confidence-comedian-china.html.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Danmei


 * Article Evaluation
 * The word "danmei" means to indulge in beautiful and romantic things, originated in Japan and initially referred to aestheticism. Later in China, it was mostly used to express gay male love. As women's economic and educational levels increase, many women are not willing to play the traditional female role. This awareness is reflected in the literature that women read. In Danmei literature, the creator abandons the female role in favour of two male protagonists, which means abandoning the social constraints of the female role and ceasing to be a subordinate role to the male. In this way, on the one hand, they portray male characters according to their own aesthetics and values, and on the other hand, they place their real-life female frustrations on male characters to express their personal dissatisfaction with society. There is an existing Wikipedia article of Danmei, which has the potential to be expanded.


 * Sources
 * Source 1: Lavin, Maud, et al. Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hong Kong University Press, 2017.
 * Source 2: “Click Bait: Homoerotic Fiction Is Doing Surprisingly Well—among Straight Women.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, www.economist.com/china/2015/11/14/click-bait.
 * Source 3: Zhao, Jamie J., and Alvin K. Wong. “Introduction: Making a Queer Turn in Contemporary Chinese-Language Media Studies.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 34, no. 4, Aug. 2020, pp. 475–483.
 * Source 4: Tian, Xi. “Homosexualizing ‘Boys Love’ in China: Reflexivity, Genre Transformation, and Cultural Interaction.” Prism, vol. 17, no. 1, 1 Mar. 2020, pp. 104–126.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * J.K. Rowling Controversy


 * Article Evaluation
 * Recently, J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, came under widespread fire for allegedly discriminating against transgender people. Although Rowling has since denied the comments in question, public opinion has not bought it. In her new novel, Troubled Blood, Rowling depicts a male serial killer in women's clothing. In conjunction with Rowling's stance on transgender issues, it seems that Rowling is trying to convey the idea that one should "never trust a man in a dress" (Kerridge). The topic is currently included in the the existing Wikipedia article of J.K. Rowling.


 * Sources
 * Source 1: Donato, Al. “Why J.K. Rowling's Statements About People Who Menstruate Are Transphobic.” HuffPost Canada, HuffPost Canada, 9 June 2020, www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jk-rowling-transphobia-menstruate-tweets_ca_5ede60a6c5b690659234ffbb.
 * Source 2: Rosenblatt, Kalhan. “J.K. Rowling Doubles down in What Some Critics Call a 'Transphobic Manifesto'.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 11 June 2020, www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/j-k-rowling-doubles-down-what-some-critics-call-transphobic-n1229351.
 * Source 3: Kolirin, Lianne. “JK Rowling's New Book Sparks Fresh Transgender Rights Row.” CNN, Cable News Network, 15 Sept. 2020, edition.cnn.com/2020/09/15/entertainment/jk-rowling-troubled-blood-book-trans-gbr-scli-intl/index.html.
 * Source 4: Haynes, Suyin. “'More Fuel to the Fire.' Trans and Non-Binary Authors Respond to Controversy Over J.K. Rowling’s New Novel.” Time, Time, 15 Sept. 2020, time.com/5888999/jk-rowling-troubled-blood-transphobia-authors/.
 * Source 5: Kerridge, Jake. “Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, Review: JK Rowling Fails to Strike Again.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 13 Sept. 2020, www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/troubled-blood-robert-galbraith-review-jk-rowling-fails-strike/.

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