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- ↑ Witchard, Anne Veronica (2009). Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown. Ashgate Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 9780754658641 . Retrieved 24 July 2014.
