"The answer has nothing to do, really, with my duties as a district 
magistrate. It doesn't even relate to Confucian philosophy per se. It is a 
racial thing, Mr. PhyrePhox. That a European man is smuggling Han babies to the 
Leased Territories—and thence, I would assume, out to the world 
beyond—triggers profound, I might even say primal emotions within me and 
many other Chinese persons.