Nothing to get steamed up about In fact, the English did not "discover" the secret of making hard-paste porcelain until the mid-18th century, and even at the end of that century their ware could still not pass the boiling water test.
康熙盛世，何恥之有？事實上，英國在十八世紀中葉以後，才「發現」製造硬瓷的「秘密」，到十八世紀末還沒能解決滾水的問題。