Many people have fled from our China (wo Zhongguo) to your place

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Edict to the Zunghars by Qianlong in 1750 . (Pingding Zhungeer fanglüe, 1990: 910). From Pingding Zhungeer fanglüe [The history of the Qing conquest of the Zunghar] (1990) Beijing: Zhongguo tushuguan tushu fuzhi suowei zhongxin.

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Many people have fled from our China (wo Zhongguo) to your place

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