4. (Note: epstein takes this quote from Chinese Repository, vol. 5 (1837), quoted in s. Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom, 1848.) 33 “they had ... men”: tuchman, p. 33. 33 “for the ... thought”: Cantlie and Jones, pp. 16–17.
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