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          Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400–1450
          Edited by Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall     This publication is made possible in part by a grant from
          and Luk Yu-ping                                   the James P. Geiss Foundation, a non-profit foundation
                                                            that sponsors research on China’s Ming dynasty
          isbn 978 0 86159 205 0                            (1368–1644)
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          Pg. vi: Anonymous, The Lion and His Keeper, Ming dynasty,
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