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- ↑ 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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