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- ↑ Fox, Josephine (Autumn 2000), "Common Sense in Shanghai: The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and Political Legitimacy in Republican China", History Workshop Journal, vol. 50, pp. 22–44.
- ↑ Cassel, Pär (2003), "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The "Judicial Sub-Prefect" as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai", Late Imperial China, vol. 24, pp. 156–182.
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- ↑ French (2010), p. 49.
- ↑ Hamashita, Takeshi (2002), "Tribute and Treaties: East Asian Treaty Ports Networks in the Era of Negotiation, 1834–1894", European Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 1, pp. 59–87.
- ↑ French (2010), pp. 52–3.
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- French, Paul (2010), The Old Shanghai A–Z, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN 978-988-8028-89-4 .