Notes
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4 Ian Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020), 143.
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7 James Geiss, “The Leopard Quarter during the Cheng-Te Reign,” Ming Studies no. 1 (1987): 1–38.