“We shall first confront them [the Russians] with arguments…and then settle it on the battlefields.”

—  Zuo Zongtang

Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, John King Fairbank, Kwang-ching Liu, Denis Crispin Twitchett, 1980, Cambridge University Press, 0521220297, 93, 754, 2010-6-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=pEfWaxPhdnIC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=We+shall+first+confront+them+%5Bthe+Russians%5D+with+arguments...and+then+settle+it+on+the+battlefields&source=bl&ots=jRX5wodmU9&sig=xZvdGcwnC8SwGFbdpfLoBqE1OJo&hl=en&ei=CchPS4_LE9KmlAfXkI26Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=We%20shall%20first%20confront%20them%20the%20russians%20with%20arguments%20and%20then%20settle%20it%20on%20the%20battlefields&f=false,
Modern Chinese warfare, 1795-1989, Bruce A. Elleman, 2001, Psychology Press, 0415214742, 79, 363, 2010-6-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=Md801mHEeOkC&pg=PA79&dq=We+shall+first+confront+them+%5Bthe+Russians%5D+with+arguments...and+then+settle+it+on+the+battlefields&hl=en&ei=ogqYTOn6KIL98AaQqrwq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=We%20shall%20first%20confront%20them%20%5Bthe%20Russians%5D%20&f=false,
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