"Celestial" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 256",
          "text": "However, with true Celestial pertinacity, `John' has stuck to his work.",
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          "ref": "1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 255",
          "roman": "It is quite a modern Russian town having been founded in 1899 as a centre for the administration of the East China Railyway and the civil and military control of Manchuria. The Celestials call it Ha-êrh-pin. The city was officially opened to international trade on the 14th January 1907, in accordance with the terms of the Chino-Japanese treaty of the 22nd December 1905.",
          "text": "Kharbin[…]",
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          "ref": "1952 January 25, “HISTORY: Ing ‘Doc’ Hay is dead”, in Blue Mountain Eagle",
          "text": "The Celestial was a smart old coot, too. I recall a cowboy who had a violent toothache, went in to try and fool him and told ‘Doc’ Hay he was plenty sick, […]",
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          "english": "when referring to Qing China",
          "word": "Qing"
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          "english": "when referring to the Qing Empire",
          "word": "Ching"
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          "english": "when referring to the Qing Dynasty",
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