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cjal-3044	Edwards, R. Randle	Imperial China’s Border Control Law	1987	30	.pdf	application/pdf	15396	667	58	As already suggested above, the same ideal of closure applied to foreigners entering Qing China. The opening of Qing China to foreign trade and missionary activity introduced a flood of alien ideas that helped to stimulate an intellectual ferment and political action leading to the downfall of the imperial order.	cache/cjal-3044.pdf	txt/cjal-3044.txt