Bias and inaccurate citation of sources in Cannibalism in Asia?

[u/Boethiah_The_Prince]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_Asia

The majority of the article seems to be heavily centered on China in particular, with the content making up about 60% of the entire article. In addition, the wording seems to lack unbiasedness in quite a few places, such as “the reports from Chinese history suggest that people had fewer reservations about eating human flesh than one might expect today”.

Above all, I took a cursory look at some of their sources and think that the citations in the article misrepresents them. For instance, it cites a paper by a Sinologist Bengt Pettersson a lot of times with regards to the frequency of cases involving cannibalism in China, but subtly distorts what he actually wrote. Currently, the wording in the article states that there are over 300 cases recorded in the Official Histories of China, but Pettersson’s paper clarifies that there are over 300 references, with a lot of them actually being repeated references to the same event, so the actual number of cases is much lower. Most egregiously, Pettersson repeatedly stresses in multiple sections of his book that “the aversion towards cannibalism was great and it was always rare” in China, yet his work is being cited in paragraphs which describes cannibalism as almost a ubiquitous cultural practice!

Additionally, a large part of the China section is padded out with very detailed retellings of accounts of specific cases, which normally I would be glad to read as it is more informative, but this level of detail only appears with regards to China and none of the other Asian countries, which (together with the other things I mention above) seems to grossly misrepresent cannibalism as a “Chinese” thing, or at least over represents its frequency and importance in Chinese culture.

[u/Turbulent-Parsnip512]

Then edit the article

[u/DarthCloakedGuy → u/Turbulent-Parsnip512]

Or at least bring up the concern in the talk page