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⁵ I have in mind such studies as Dikötter, F., The Discourse of Race in Modern China (London: C. Hurst, 1992).Google Scholar

⁶ I have in mind such works as Henderson, John B., The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984)Google Scholar, and Elman, Benjamin A., From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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⁹ Thus Evans, John Fairbank, p. 17, referring both to Fairbank and to Webster.Google Scholar

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