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- ↑ David Mungello, Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012
- ↑ Mungello, David E. (1977). Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
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