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Record W2957222054 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.13369

A Reflection on Wondrous Woo

2019· article· en· W2957222054 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Kimberly Ng

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeChinese americansReading (process)FeelingMulticulturalismSociologyMedia studiesHybridityAngerHistoryLiteratureGender studiesPsychologyEthnic groupAnthropologyArtPolitical scienceSocial psychologyLaw

Abstract

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As a second-generation Chinese Canadian immigrant, I reflect on and respond to my first encounter with Chinese Canadian literature: Carrianne Leung’s The Wondrous Woo. The Wondrous Woo is a YA novel following a Chinese girl, Miramar, who resides in the suburbs of Toronto as she navigates through university, relationships, and family hardships. My lack of exposure to Chinese Canadian literature combined with my desire to see Asian Canadians represented in popular media creates certain expectations for the novel. When The Wondrous Woo fails to represent my own experience of cultural hybridity, I find myself grappling with feelings of anger and frustration. The narrative forces me to ask whether novels like The Wondrous Woo can sustain novel quality while encouraging readers to explore complex dimensions of a diverse society, or if they address racism using stories with hidden objectives to commodify Chinese culture. By reading The Wondrous Woo through Nai-Hua Kuo's article "Depictions of Chinese Americans in Young Adult Literature," to problematize what it means for a novel to be a quality multicultural text, I begin to gain a new understanding of what Carrianne Leung is trying to illustrate in The Wondrous Woo.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.813
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.122
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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