HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Second Opium War, Treaty Ports, Steamboat
Document Summary
Commissioners lin solving the problem of the opium. Was making threats but his results were weak, never did anything. 1839: the qing debate on the opium problem in resolved. Lin zebu sent to canton by the emperor to clamp down on the opium problems arrives in march of 1839, he was 54 yr. old when sent, he was gov. He threats with moral persuasion to stop the dealers, smokers etc. Proclamations - order all smoker to hand over pipe and opium. Measures in schools - he targets schools in particular, gets the school to give him a list of all the student who are users. He made groups in school of internal policing. He calls a special assembly of all school, to integrate then to see who the deal- ers are. He seizes a great majority of it all the moves his focus to the suppliers if the opium. He doesn"t want to have armed conflict and approaches it delicate.
