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China prohibió la venta del opio y fumarlo se castigaba con la muerte. Con la prohibición del opio se originaron las condiciones para traficar ilegalmente, dicen algunos estudiosos del tema. Veamos cómo se expandió el vicio. 18 de octubre de 1735 hasta 1796.
Imports of opium into China stood at 200 chests annually in 1729, when the first anti-opium edict was promulgated. By the time Chinese authorities reissued the prohibition in starker terms in 1799, the figure had leaped; 4,500 chests were imported in the year 1800.
En 1729, el emperador Yongzheng prohibió su comercio, por la gran cantidad de adictos que generaba. La prohibición generó el conflicto, pues mientras el emperador chino veía en la droga un peligro para la población, los británicos veían en el comercio del opio una manera de compensar el comercio con China, pues la droga les generaba ...
The first restrictions on opium were passed by the Qing in 1729 when Madak (a substance made from powdered opium blended with tobacco) was banned. At the time, Madak production used up most of the opium being imported into China, as pure opium was difficult to preserve.
In 1729 the Chinese prohibited smoking opium and in 1800 an imperial edict banned its cultivation and importation. Nonetheless opium was still smuggled into China. The Daoguang Emperor appointed Lin Zexu to halt the illicit trade in Guangdong.
About two hundred chests (one chest weighs about 63.5 kilograms) of opium entered China in 1729. Sixty years later that amount had only doubled. Most of that increase probably occurred after 1773, when the East India Company began to ship opium to China through subcontracting agents known as “country traders.”
In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a Sino–British problem confined to southeastern China.
