Lin Zexu Bans Opium (Part 1 and Part 2)

Author: Zhu Yu Adapted
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: In the late 18th century, imperialist countries such as Britain and the United States began to smuggle opium into China in large quantities using armed smuggling methods, plundering China's wealth and poisoning the Chinese people. This sparked an unending resistance struggle by the Chinese people. Facing severe national crisis and extreme financial difficulties domestically, the Qing rulers sent Lin Zexu to Guangdong to suppress opium. Inspired by the fervent anti-imperialist resistance of the Guangdong people, he stood shoulder to shoulder with the people and engaged in a head-on struggle against imperialism, launching a large-scale anti-opium campaign that dealt a blow to the arrogance of the imperialist aggressors. However, the Qing rulers, facing the gunboat diplomacy and military threats of the aggressors, yielded and revoked Lin Zexu's appointment as "Special Commissioner," exiled him to Ili, and signed the traitorous "Treaty of Nanking" with the British Empire, marking the end of the Opium War. From then on, the Chinese people ignited the flames of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle.