Conflicting viewpoints on opium prohibition: Radical changes to opium policy in the late Qing dynasty

Frontiers of History in China - Tập 1 Số 4 - Trang 590-610 - 2006
Liu Zeng-he1
1Department of History, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Tóm tắt

The ban on opium at the end of the Qing dynasty was larger and more influential than ever before. Opinions differed on opium prohibition between the court and society. The intelligentsia and government believed in a set of policies, while opium farmers and traders resisted them. Subsequent conflicts became more and more intense, especially when opium farmers began protesting the ban on planting opium. The reactions of officials and commoners towards this backlash against the opium ban were very complex. The rehabilitation plans and measures following the backlash proved ineffective, leaving a confused situation out of control.

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