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- ↑ "2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". Los Angeles Book Prize. Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
- ↑ "The New Chinese Empire". Archived from the original on 2010-12-25.
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