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Option 1

 * Article title
 * Lin Bai


 * Article Evaluation
 * - Missing picture
 * - Information in biographical box is minimal
 * - Not much information on the author in general: some information on one of her works, very short biography and a little bit on her writing career and reception
 * - Sometimes there are some weird sentence formulations
 * - Not much information on the historical/social/political context as well as about her writing style
 * - There is not a lot of references for the paragraphs.
 * - Limited bibliography


 * Sources
 * Guptak, Suman. “Li Rui, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, and Lin Bai: Four Contemporary Chinese Writers Interviewed.” Wasafiri 23, 3 (2008): 28-36. Pozzi, Silvia. “Individualized Writing: Women Writers Blooming in China. The Art of Flying and Lin Bai.” Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale 59 (1999): 251-72.
 * “Leaving Taboos behind: Notes on Two Novels by Chen Ran and Lin Bai.” Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale 64 (2004): 237-45. Sang, Tze-lan. “At the Juncture of Censure and Mass Voyeurism: Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8, 4 (2002) 523-552. [deals largely withSelf at War]  Wang, Lingzhen. “Reproducing the Self: Consumption, Imaginary, and Identity in Chinese Women’s Autobiographical Practice in the 1990ss.” In Charles Laughlin, ed., Contested Modernity in Chinese Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 173-92. [deals primarily with Chen Ran’s Private Life and Lin Bai’s Self at War]