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- ↑ "A Truthful Impression of the Country": British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001 ISBN 0472111973), 132-33.
- ↑ French, Paul (4 December 2004). "One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 by Peter Fleming". Asian Review of Books. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
