The Opium Problem And It's Administration In Modern Hunan

The emergence and extending of the opium maintained close ties with the development of hunan history. Opiums have been moved into China long before. However, the westen colonialist power used opium trade as a kind of aggression weapon only in the last 200 years. Especially after the Opium war, under the protection of unequal treaties, opium monger imported more and more opiums, which made them run wild. The overrunning of opium made modern China disasterridden, and gravely impeded the economic development and social progress of modern China* As to Hunan which had important position in modern Chinese history, the calamity from opium and the struggle of management of it, was one of the phenomena which had profound effect on its politic, economic and social life. On the base of existing study, this article systematically analysis the opium problem and the administration of it ,compared with modern Chinese junk history.These contents of this paper consists of the follow parts are:Foreword: Explaining the reasons and significance why to select this title.The first part: The opium problem and its harm in modern Hunan. First this part explicates the initiation of Chinese opium problem and the progress after it was introduced into Hunan, then points out the harm of it to modern Hunan society. The second part: The management of the opium problem and its effect in modern Hunan. This part describes the opium-forbidding movement in six periods. Each phrase has its own historical backgrounds and characteristic, so each had different effect. None of them was successful.The third part: Reference from the opium in modern Hunan history. The first half analysis the reasons why the opium was overrunning. The second half argues the reference from the management of opium problem to the forbidding of drug.The end: Briefly sumerising the modern Hunan' s opium problem.