2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Chinese Campaign Against Opium and the Conflict Over the Native Opium Revenue between the Central Government and Local Government

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520602
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Asian history
Research Institution	Okayama University
Principal Investigator	NIIMURA Yoko Okayama University, 大学院・社会文化科学研究科, 教授 (80362945)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	中国アヘン / 中英禁烟協定 / 趙爾巽 / 四川省
Research Abstract	In 1906,An Imperial decree was issued commanding within ten years foreign and native opium be equally eradicated. British Government agreed to reduce annually by one-tenth of the average amount of the Indian opium exports to China. This anti-opium movement was regarded as an earnest social reform in late Qing period. But we should not forget at that time Qing Government urgently needed money after the Boxer uprising. The production of native opium was very large, and that the revene derived from it was also very large. The Qing China Policy in her last several years has been to centralize this revenue, and the conflict over native opium revenue has been proceeding between Central Government and Local Government. To eradicate British opium trade is very convenient to Qing Government. She could have introduce heavy duty on native opium without Britain's interference..