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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
 * Jin Tianhe
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article begins with a brief lead section that contains some basic biographical information about the writer, including names, year of born, etc. However, it lacks a summarization of the content and it's not detailed, coherent, and the information kind of flows around. Improvements are needed on punctuation and sentence composition. The content section needs serious improvements and expansions. The article doesn't have enough coverage on the author, it only has one section and it's oversimplified and not detailed. The content does not reflect on things written in the lead section. It could potentially expand on the writer's life, and add sections like the writer's influence, legacy, and contemporaries' reception to his work. Few sources are referenced, and not every fact in the lead section are properly cited with sources.
 * Some sources are not specified with page numbers. The article also doesn't have any relevant pictures.
 * Sources
 * Liu, Lydia He, Rebecca E Karl, and Dorothy Ko, eds. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Weatherhead Books on Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
 * Wang, Bo. "Engaging Nüquanzhuyi: The Making of a Chinese Feminist Rhetoric." College English 72, no. 4 (2010): 385-405.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Lu Yin (writer)
 * Article Evaluation
 * The information in the lead section seems oversimplified as are not backed by brief explanations or evidences. For instance, the line "her books are not happy" sounds a very subjective claim in tone. The lead section does not really provide a detailed overview with important/valuable information about the author, and the entire section is not property cited.
 * The content only has one section - the author's life. It contains some important aspects of the author's life, including education, marriage, social relationships, and discusses briefly about one of her literary works. Though, some information of the content section are not referenced with sources.
 * It could potentially be improved by adding a section of the author's published works, her style of writing, and some important themes of her works.


 * Sources
 * Fiss, Geraldine. “Feminine and Masculine Dimensions of Feminist Thought and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8, 1 (March 2014): 101-24.
 * Hong, Jeesoon. Gendered Modernism of Republican China: Lu Yin, Ling Shuhua, and Zhang Ailing, 1920-1949. Ph. D. diss. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2003.
 * LARSON, WENDY. "Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin." In Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique, edited by KANG LlU and TANG XIAOBING, by Jameson Fredric, 124-44. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 1993.
 * Wang, Bo. ""Breaking the Age of Flower Vases": Lu Yin's Feminist Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 28, no. 3 (2009): 246-64.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Xiao Meili


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's very brief lead has information that are not present or expanded in the body of the article, for example, the article China's Feminist Awakening is not further explained in the content section. The lead also does not summarize the body.
 * The body listed few of Xiao Meili's important activist activities, however, it could have added some points about the society's reception to her activism, people's participation, government responses, and her possible influences on later feminist activism in China.
 * The article could have included some images and photographs about her activism.

Sources

HOU, HOLLY LIXIAN. "On Fire in Weibo: Feminist Online Activism in China." Economic and Political Weekly 50, no. 17 (2015): 79-85.

WANG, QI. "Young Feminist Activists in Present-Day China: A New Feminist Generation?" China Perspectives, no. 3 (114) (2018): 59-68.

Zheng, Wang. "Detention of the Feminist Five in China." Feminist Studies 41, no. 2 (2015): 476-82.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Henhai


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section has some good summary of the novel, but needs some more rigorous citations, as some facts are not cited with sources. Similarly, the background section also needs clearer citations. The body stated some scholarly interpretations and receptions of the novel, but does not reflect on things stated in the lead section. The beginning of the background section is not very clear in organization, the writing and intended messages seem a bit confusing. Content lacks some coverage, summary of the novel is not provided. Organization and transitions need some further improvements.
 * This article could potentially expand more on historical context, summary and plot, and contemporary intellectual/societal receptions.


 * Sources
 * "Creating Subjectivity in Wu Jianren's The Sea of Regret." In David Wang and Shang Wei, eds., Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond. Cambridge: Harvard Asia Center, 2005, 451-477.
 * Egan, Michael. "Characterization in Sea of Woe." In Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova, ed., The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980, 165-76.
 * Tang, Xiaobing. "Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature." In Tang, Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 11-48.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * He Zhen (anarchist)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has relative comprehensive information provided. Its structure and organization are clear, uses appropriate subheadings, and gives relevant content. The lead has a concise summary about the subject He Zhen that raises some important points about her life and writings, which are subsequently explained in the body. The body provides a detailed autobiographical section on the life of He Zhen, and also discusses two of her famous essays and her view on women's status and liberation.
 * The article could expand on listing more of her essays and works, and perhaps provide some of her most widely circulated works in English translation. It would also be good to further elaborate on her views and ideas in relation to the historical context and her contemporaries, and indicate some of the gaps and different perceptions she had compared to her contemporary feminist advocates.
 * It could also briefly include some intellectual/government critiques and dissents against He Zhen.


 * Sources
 * Dirlik, A.. "Anarchism in early twentieth century China: A contemporary perspective." Journal of Modern Chinese History 6 (2012): 131-146.
 * Dirlik, Arif. "Vision and Revolution: Anarchism in Chinese Revolutionary Thought on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution." Modern China 12, no. 2 (1986): 123-65.
 * Zhen, He-Yin. ""Economic Revolution and Women's Revolution"." In The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, edited by Liu Lydia H., Karl Rebecca E., and Ko Dorothy, 92-104. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.