“哥德堡”号走私鸦片的反思

“哥德堡”号商船的主人瑞典东印度公司,虽然号称从未向中国贩运过鸦片,但其实是中国贩运鸦片的始作俑者。清廷对国内社会各阶层普遍吸食鸦片现象控制不力,从而变相助长了西方列强的鸦片倾销行为,加速了晚清封建社会的崩溃。

Reflection on Gotheborg's Opium-smuggling Activity

The East Indian Gotheborg despite its claim of never trafficking opium to China, was actually the initiatory bootlegger. Qing government' s undercontrol of domestic social classes fostered western nations' opium-dumping activities ,which accelerated its own breakdown.