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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
 * Socialist Ideology of the Kuomintang


 * Article Evaluation
 * Somewhat limited sources but I think enough to expand upon it more. It does not clearly describe what the ideology itself is only relating it to the Minsheng Principle of Sun Yat-sen. No large additions have been made for some time.


 * Sources
 * Phillips, Steven. 2016. “Democracy and National Destinies on Taiwan.” Nations & Nationalism 22 (4): 666–85. doi:10.1111/nana.12250. Chou, Yangsun, and Andrew J. Nathan. “Democratizing Transition in Taiwan.” Asian Survey 27, no. 3 (1987): 277–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644805 . Fitzgerald, John. “The Misconceived Revolution: State and Society in China’s Nationalist Revolution, 1923-26.” The Journal of Asian Studies 49, no. 2 (1990): 323–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057300 .  Dirlik, Arif. “Mass Movements and the Left Kuomintang.” Modern China 1, no. 1 (1975): 46–74. http://www.jstor.org/stable/188884 .  HARRIS, LANE J. 2012. “Defining the Nationalist Party Center: The Text and Context of Gan Naiguang’s Outline of Sun Wenism.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 34 (November): 87–113. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=84425219&site=ehost-live.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * United Front


 * Article Evaluation
 * It has limited sources to expand on but doesn't have much direct information on the the topic itself. It describes its activities but leaves out its goals and purpose aside from a short section in the introduction. I believe this can be expanded upon.


 * Sources
 * Sheng, Michael M. “Mao, Stalin, and the Formation of the Anti-Japanese United Front: 1935-37.” The China Quarterly, no. 129 (1992): 149–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/654601 . Lim, Jason. “Chinese Merchants in Singapore and the China Trade, 1819-1959.” Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Australian National University, 2012. http://www.asia-studies.com/2csds.html . Yang, Zi. 2022. “The Chinese Communist Party’s Exploitation of the Second United Front: Intelligence and Counterintelligence on a Middle Force Territory.” Intelligence & National Security 37 (1): 73–89. doi:10.1080/02684527.2021.1984017.  Mason, Richard. “The United States, the Cold War and Indonesia-People's Republic of China Relations, 1950–1955.” Kemanusiaan the Asian Journal of Humanities, 2016. http://web.usm.my/kajh/.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Farmer-Labor Party


 * Article Evaluation
 * It lists out the history and conventions as well as various schisms but makes little mention of the ideology aside from appeals to farmers and urban workers. It also makes little mention of the successful Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. There are few resources on the subject however and it may not be viable or prescient.


 * Sources
 * Jacob Zumoff. 2014. The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: Brill. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=846957&site=ehost-live Lovin, Hugh T. “The Fall of Farmer-Labor Parties, 1936-1938.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 62, no. 1 (1971): 16–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40488875 . Barford, Mary. “Rural Radicals: Illinois and the Farmer-Labor Party Coal Mining ... - Eiu.” Eastern Illinois University. Accessed October 20, 2022. https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Barford.pdf .  Delton, Jennifer A. “1. The Rise and Fall of the Farmer-Labor Party.” Essay. In Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1–18. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.  Lubotina, Paul. “The Minnesota F The Minnesota Farm-Labor P Arm-Labor Party: The Role of Thir Ty: The Role of Third Parties in the Ties in the Americanization of European Labor Radicals in the Great Lakes Region.” Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region 4 (2016).

Option 4

 * Article title
 * United Front in Taiwan


 * Article Evaluation
 * There are a decent amount of sources on the subject though it may be limited by language. There is next to nothing being spoken about on it and I think it would be beneficial to add to it in some manner. Politics and the highly politicized nature of it may incur some issue.


 * Sources
 * Editor, and Henri Dutilleux says: “China's United Front Strategy and Taiwan.” Taiwan Insight. University of Nottingham Taiwan Insight, March 13, 2018. https://taiwaninsight.org/2018/02/19/chinas-united-front-strategy-and-taiwan/.
 * Kuo, Cheng-Tian. “The PRC and Taiwan: Fujian’s Faltering United Front.” Asian Survey 32, no. 8 (1992): 683–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645362.
 * Hsu, King-Yi. “Taiwan’s Response to Peking’s United Front Tactics.” Asian Affairs 8, no. 2 (1980): 89–112. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30171806.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Socialist Thought in Imperial Japan


 * Article Evaluation
 * Not very prominent but has some relevant studies on the subject. It does look promising to expand on. There is next to nothing on the current page and it has little controversy that would cause major issue in conflicts of interest. Sources, however, may be limited by language.


 * Sources
 * Yamaguchi, Jiro. “The Meaning of ‘the Social’ in Japanese Reform.” Thesis, Hokkaido University, 2003.
 * Large, Stephen S. “Nishio Suehiro and the Japanese Social Democratic Movement, 1920-1940.” The Journal of Asian Studies 36, no. 1 (1976): 37–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2053841.