The first edition of the book Gospel and Anti-opium: Protestant Missionaries and the Rise and Fall of the Opium Trade in Late Qing China (1807-1911) was published, exploring the role missionaries played in opium trade and analyzing the reasons behind and significance of the transition.
The book was co-published by the Chinese Christian Literature Council (TW), the Graduate School of Religion at Chung Yuan Christian University, and its Research Center for Chinese Christianity.
According to the online bookstore affiliated with the China Sunday School Association, this new book draws on a range of foreign literature to examine in depth the changing perspectives and attitudes of missionaries toward the opium trade.
The relationship between missionaries and the opium trade remains a controversial topic. Some existing studies portray both missionaries and opium dealers as imperialists, overlooking the historical fact that missionaries were participants in the anti-opium movement. Conversely, other studies depict missionaries as "anti-opium fighters," neglecting to address their close ties to the opium trade in its early stages. These two opposing perspectives simplify the relationship, to a certain extent ignoring missionaries’ evolving concepts and attitudes toward opium during the late Qing Dynasty.
The author of this book, Huili Zhuo, was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, in 1991. He studied at the College of Sociology and History at Fujian Normal University from 2016 to 2019, where he majored in religion and earned a master's degree in philosophy. From 2020 to 2024, he extended his studies at East China Normal University, focusing on Chinese history in the Department of History, and obtained a PhD in History. Currently, he serves as a teacher at the College of Humanities at Baoshan University in Yunnan Province, with research directions including the history of Christianity in China, the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West, and the history of Sino-foreign relations.
由台灣基督教文藝出版社、中原大學宗教研究所、基督教與華人文化社會研究中心聯合出版的福音與禁煙：晚清傳教士與鴉片貿易的興廢(1807-1911)于2024年10月21日出版第一版。
据中國主日學協會的网络书店，本书利用较丰富的外文文献，详细考察传教士对鸦片贸易的认知和态度演变，探讨传教士在鸦片贸易中扮演的角色，并分析这种转变的原因及意义。
传教士与鸦片贸易之间的关系广为争议。部分既有研究把传教士与鸦片贩子同视为帝国主义份子，在一定程度上忽视了传教士参与禁烟运动的历史事实。另一些研究则是将传教士视为「反鸦片的斗士」，对早期传教士与鸦片贸易的密切联系避而不谈。这两种截然相反的论点似乎将传教士与鸦片的关系简单化，在一定程度上忽略了晚清传教士对鸦片的观念和态度存在一个转变的过程。
据悉，本书作者，卓輝立（Huili Zhuo）， 1991年生，浙江溫州人，2016-2019年就讀於福建師範大學社會歷史學院宗教學專業，獲哲學碩士學位，2020-2024年就讀於華東師範大學歷史學系中國史專業，獲歷史學博士學位，現為雲南保山學院人文學院教師。研究方向為中國基督教史、中西文化交流史、中外關係史。
新书速递：福音與禁煙：晚清傳教士與鴉片貿易的興廢(1807-1911)
The first edition of the book Gospel and Anti-opium: Protestant Missionaries and the Rise and Fall of the Opium Trade in Late Qing China (1807-1911) was published, exploring the role missionaries played in opium trade and analyzing the reasons behind and significance of the transition.
The book was co-published by the Chinese Christian Literature Council (TW), the Graduate School of Religion at Chung Yuan Christian University, and its Research Center for Chinese Christianity.
According to the online bookstore affiliated with the China Sunday School Association, this new book draws on a range of foreign literature to examine in depth the changing perspectives and attitudes of missionaries toward the opium trade.
The relationship between missionaries and the opium trade remains a controversial topic. Some existing studies portray both missionaries and opium dealers as imperialists, overlooking the historical fact that missionaries were participants in the anti-opium movement. Conversely, other studies depict missionaries as "anti-opium fighters," neglecting to address their close ties to the opium trade in its early stages. These two opposing perspectives simplify the relationship, to a certain extent ignoring missionaries’ evolving concepts and attitudes toward opium during the late Qing Dynasty.
The author of this book, Huili Zhuo, was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, in 1991. He studied at the College of Sociology and History at Fujian Normal University from 2016 to 2019, where he majored in religion and earned a master's degree in philosophy. From 2020 to 2024, he extended his studies at East China Normal University, focusing on Chinese history in the Department of History, and obtained a PhD in History. Currently, he serves as a teacher at the College of Humanities at Baoshan University in Yunnan Province, with research directions including the history of Christianity in China, the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West, and the history of Sino-foreign relations.
New Book 'Gospel and Anti-Opium' Examines Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Late Qing China
