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- ↑ Lutz, Jessie G. (2008). Opening China: Karl F.A. Gützlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827–1852. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans. p. 345. ISBN 9780802831804.
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