Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?

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The degrading and repulsive part, the unbibliophilic acts in the British Museum and other libraries, are not part of the assessment of the importance of An Enquiry.