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Reform, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Opium Suppression Movement in China and the Anglo-American Influence, 1900–1908

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Thomas D. Reins
Thomas D. Reins
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Of the late Ch'ing reforms, perhaps none is more surprising than the opium suppression movement. Beginning in late 1906, it had by the end of 1908 succeeded in markedly curtailing the cultivation and consumption of opium at home and in obtaining formal assurance from the British to terminate gradually opium imports. These startling achievement are further magnified when we consider the setting within which they occurred.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 101 - 142
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The author extends a special thanks to Professors Jackson K. Putnam and Michael P. Onorato of California State University, Fullerton, and Professor Arthur L. Rosenbaum of Claremont-McKenna College for their critical comments on earlier drafts of this article, which is dedicated to the memory of Professor Cameron Stewart.

1 Chinese officials succeeded in negotiating a treaty with the United States that forbade a major Western nation from importing opium into the Middle Kingdom. Article II of the Sino-American Commercial Relations and Judicial Procedure Treaty, signed at Peking on November 17, 1880, stipulated, among other things, that ‘The Governments of China and of the United States mutually agree and undertake that Chinese subjects shall not be permitted to import opium into any parts of the United States; and citizens of the United States shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports of China….’ Significantly, the Americans agree that the ‘benefits of the favored nation clause in existing treaties shall not be claimed by citizens or subjects of either power against the provisions of this article.’ See Bevins, Charles I. (comp.), Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America. 1776–1949 (6 vols, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971), 6:689. The appropriate legislation was passed by the United States Congress on 02 23, 1887.Google Scholar See Statutes at Large, 24th, Chapter 210, p. 409, which provided that opium traffickers found guilty in an American court would be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Added to the opium provisions of the 1880 treaty was Article 16 of the Sino-American Commercial Treaty of October 8, 1903, which bound both nations to end morphia trafficking.Google Scholar See MacMurray, John V. A. (comp. and ed.), Treaties and Agreements With and Concerning China, 1894–1919 (2 vols, New York: Howard Fertig, 1973), 1:431.Google Scholar

2 The full text of the edict can be found in Great Britain, Foreign Office, China, No. 1 (1908), Correspondence Respecting the Opium Question in China (London, 1908), pp. 2–3.Google Scholar See also T'ing-yi, Kuo (comp.), ‘China-tai chung-kuo shih-shih jih-chih (Ch'ing-chi)’ [hereafter SSJC] (Chronology of modern China, late Ch'ing period, Taipei, 1963; 2 vols), 2:1259; and ‘Ta-Ch'ing li-ch'ao shih-ly: Kuang-hsu’ [hereafter CSL: KH] (Veritable records of successive reigns of the Ch'ing dynasty, Kuang-hsu reign; Taipei, 1964), ch. 8, 5155. J. C. S. Hall concludes that the Nationalist government did make considerable progress in bringing opium under control by the eve of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.Google Scholar See his The Yunnan Provincial Faction, 1927–1937 (Canberra: Australian National University, 1976), pp. 99–142.Google Scholar

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11 SSJC, 2:1168; American Journal of International Law, 3 (1909), Supplement, 263–4; CKCY, p. 137;Google Scholar and MacMurray, , Treaties 1:351. The treaty stipulated, however, that Britain would not initiate the provisions until all treaty powers agreed to limit their morphine commerce to China to medical needs.Google Scholar

12 SSJC, 2:1187; American Journal of International Law, 255; CKCY, pp. 137–8;Google Scholar and MacMurray, , Treaties, I:431. America agreed to limit its morphine commerce to China to medical needs regardless of the action taken by other treaty powers.Google Scholar

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15 RIOCS, 2:66. Unfortunately, illicit morphine trafficking resulted; see RIOCS, 2:67–70.Google Scholar

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21 Ibid., p. 302. Also see Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (3 vols, reprint, Taipei: Ch'eng-wen, n.d.), 2:376. John Russell Young, American Minister in Peking during the early 1880s, concluded: ‘I cannot doubt the sincerity of the Chinese authorities, especially of Li Hung-chang, in their desire to suppress opium.’ See US Government, Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States [hereafter FRUS], 1883 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1884), p. 127. But in a letter to the head of a British anti-opium society, Li perpetuated the hoary Chinese drug position that made nearly all Westerners suspicious: ‘Opium is a subject in the discussion of which England and China can never meet on common ground. China views the whole question from moral standpoint; England from a fiscal. England would sustain a source of revenue in India, while China contends for the lives and prosperity of her people. The ruling motive with China is to repress opium by heavy taxation everywhere, whereas with England the manifest object is to make opium cheaper, and thus increase and stimulate the demand in China.’ Whatever China's ‘ruling motive’ might have been, not even the most ardent opponent of the India-China opium trade ignored the positive fiscal effects China experienced. See ibid., p. 128. The emphasis is Li's.

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23 Paul, A., Cohen, , Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 66, 83, 203. This solution to the opium problem had many advocates, which is why the British were ever cautious of Chinese intentions when Peking spoke of opium reform.Google ScholarSee Yu Tsan, ‘Hsu-shang lun’ (On China's Sorrowful Commercial Situation), in Yang, Sung (ed.), ‘Chung-kuo chin-tai shih tzu-liao hsuan-chi (Selected Historical Materials of Modern Chinese History) (Peking, 1954), pp. 282–3, 285.Google Scholar

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31 Chester Holcombe, The Real Chinese Question (New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1900), pp. 149, 284–5. The economic consequences of Britain's heretofore heavyhanded policy toward China were not lost on the Liberal government that came to power in early 1906. According to the new Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, ‘it is becoming increasingly apparent that foreign trade in China cannot prosper in the face of Chinese ill-will.’ F.O. 371/35, Grey to Jordan, 31 August 1906, as quoted in Lim, ‘Britain and the Termination of the India–China Opium Trade,’ p. 99, and Brown, ibid.

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40 Ibid., pp. 53–5. It should be noted that the alternative measures for regulating opium often ran parallel to those debated before the Ch'ing Court in the 1830s and 1840s. The Nanking government would also be discussing the problem along these lines.

41 Ibid., p. 53.

42 Ibid., pp. 21–8. For a more detailed account of the Japanese handling of the opium problem in Taiwan, see ibid., pp. 201–11, 221–8.

43 DuBose, Hampton, President of the Anti-Opium League, actually believed that the United States and Japan were on the verge of forming an anti-opium alliance in the Pacific;Google Scholar see NCH, May 18, 1906, p. 379. Also see Lo, Hui-min (ed.), The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison (2 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 1:382. An official Japanese position can be found in K. Midzuno, ‘Japan's Crusade on The Use of Opium in Formosa,’ North American Review, February 1909, pp. 274–9.Google Scholar

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56 Parliamentary Debates (1906), 513; and Spence, ‘Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China,’ pp.s 167–71. In the summer of 1906, G. E. Morrison, a respected and influential Australian journalist, commented: ‘…the Chinese are much embarrassed by the challenge given them; they have no desire to restrict at the present time their opium revenue.’Google Scholar See Lo, , The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, 1:382. A cautiously hopeful view from America can be found in Nation, 10 18, 1906, pp. 820–1.Google Scholar

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