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Article Selection
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: A Flower in a Sinful Sea
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article's content is relevant to the topic of Jin Tianhe as he wrote the novel. The content also dives into his political beliefs, and the development of his novel.
 * Is it written neutrally? It is written neutrally as the content is objective.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Each claims have citations, evident in the footnotes.
 * Are the citations reliable? The citations are reliable, considering they come from scholarly journals and books from reliable sources such as renowned universities.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article does tackle Wikipedia's equity gaps as feminist East Asian literature is highly underrepresented, yet this article is rich in information, context, and sources.
 * sources
 * Hu, Ying. Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1899–1918.
 * Li, Peter. "The Dramatic Structure of Niehai hua" in: Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena (editor).
 * Liu, Jianmei. Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. University of Hawaii Press, October 2003.
 * McMahon, Keith. Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity
 * Starr, Chloë. Red-light Novels of the late Qing.
 * Doar, Bruce. "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century" (book review). The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, ISSN 0156-7365, 01/1982, Issue 7, pp. 199–201

Option 2

 * Article title: Jin Tianhe
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article's content is relevant to the topic.
 * Is it written neutrally? It is written neutrally as the content is objective, having no hints of bias.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Not all claims have a citation. For example, when discussing Jin Tianhe's dislike for the imperial examination system, there is no citation to back up that source.
 * Are the citations reliable? There are not many sources, but they do seem reliable as they are educational resources like the Encyclopedia, and books.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article does tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps as it seeks to cover historically underrepresented authors/poets such as Jin Tianhe, expanding the knowledge of Chinese literature.
 * Sources
 * Encyclopedia of china
 * Qian Zhonglian (1999). Dang dai xue zhe zi xuan wen ku. qian zhong lian juan (in Chinese). Hefei: An hui jiao yu chu ban she. pp. 352–354.
 * Hu, p. 55.

Option 3

 * Article Title: Roman a clef
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article's content is relevant to the topic, as Jin Tianhe wrote a Roman a clef.
 * Is it written neutrally? It is written neutrally as the content is objective, having no hints of bias.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Not all claims have a citation. For example, when discussing Jin Tianhe's dislike for the imperial examination system, there is no citation to back up that source.
 * Are the citations reliable? There are not many sources, but they do seem reliable as they are educational resources like the Encyclopedia, and sources from renowned universities like the University of Cambridge.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * No, the article does not tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps. Rather, it informs us about the type of novel of Jin Tianhe's writing.
 * Sources
 * "The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature", By Steven R. Serafin, Alfred Bendixen, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 0-8264-1777-9, ISBN 978-0-8264-1777-0, p. 525
 * "Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English" by Ian Ousby, Cambridge University Press, 1996
 * The Modernist roman à clef and Cultural Secrets, or I Know That You Know That I Know That You Know" by M. Boyde, University of Wollongong, 2009

Option 4

 * Article title: Zeng Pu
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article's content is relevant to the topic as Zeng Pu collaborated with Jin Tianhe to write the novel.
 * Is it written neutrally? It is written neutrally as the content appears to be derived from legitimate sources. However, there is not much information, making it difficult to decide if it is written neutrally.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Not all claims have a citation. For example, when discussing Zeng Pu's education, there was no citation.
 * Are the citations reliable? There are not many sources, but they do seem reliable as they are educational resources from universities.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article does tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps as it seeks to cover historically underrepresented authors/poets such as Zeng Pu, expanding the knowledge of Chinese literature.
 * Sources
 * McDougall and Louie, p. 90
 * "Zeng Pu's "Niehai Hua" as a political novel--a world genre in a Chinese form" (database listing with abstract) (Archive) The University of Hong Kong Libraries. Retrieved on October 26, 2013.
 * Doleželová-Velingerová, p. 724.
 * Wang, Dewei, p. 103
 * Rojas, Carlos (6 April 2015). "Chapter 2: Rebellion". Homesickness. Harvard University Press

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