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- ↑ Wright, Mary Clabaugh (1962), The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-chih Restoration, 1862-1874, Volume 13 of Stanford studies in history, economics, and political science, Stanford University Press, pp. 53, 167, ISBN 0804704759
- ↑ Kuhn, Philip A. (1978), "The Creation of the Treaty System", The Cambridge History of China, vol. 10, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 289.
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- Beal, Edwin George. The Origin of Likin, 1853–1864. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
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