Protestant Missionary And Chinese Opium Problem Within The End Of Qing Dynasty And The Beginning Of The Republic Of China (Centered On The South Of Changjiang River During 1860 To 1912)

This thesis gives a brief account on the effort and the achievement of anti-opium made by the Protestant missionaries who visited China during the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. As evangelists, they should follow the Christian moral. While at the same time, they hoped to help Chinese to fight against the opium, so that they could incorporate themselves to the Chinese society and make Protestant be accepted as much as possible. Above all these reasons, the missionaries stood by the side of anti-opium. Although their power was very weak, and could not be mentioned in the same breath with the opium traffickers no matter in the capital or political status, they fought for anti-opium unfailingly in order to realize their ideal of evangelism. They made propaganda in various ways, disclosed the truth, counterattacked the censure from those who were for the opium traffic, and acted to help the local people to be off the habit. These foreigners paid attention to the opium problems comparatively early, and were fighters of anti-opium though their practice. They made indelible contribution to the Chinese and world Anti-drug battle.