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BUC: Berlin Unschuld Collection, East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Works are followed by the collection (Slg.) number, for example, BUC 8232.
DSZ: Dianshizhai huabao articles are included in Ye Hanming, 葉漢明, Jiang Yinghao 蔣英豪, and Huang Yongsong 黃永松, eds., 點石齋畫報全文校點 [The Dianshizhai Pictorial, complete text, checked and punctuated], Hong Kong, Commercial Press, 2014. Figures accompanying those articles correspond to DSZ catalog numbers.
Plum: Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Jin ping mei [Plum in the golden vase]
Stone: Cao Xueqin, Shitou ji
Systematic Compendium: Li Shizhen, Bencao gangmu
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