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- ↑ Scullard, Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2, pp. 566–568.
- ↑ Bodde, Derk (1987), "The State and Empire of Qin", in Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, vol. I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC – AD 220, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 27, ISBN 0-521-24327-0 .