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"ref": "2006, Xiofei Kang, The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China",
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"ref": "2011, Kregg Hetherington, Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, page 108",
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"ref": "2013, Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man, page 258",
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