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- ↑ https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp318_hallucinogens_china.pdf Fan Pen Li Chen Hallucinogen Use in China: Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 318, October 2021, State University of Albany New York
- ↑ Wilkinson, Chinese history: a manual , p. 603.
