Missionaries and the Anti-Opium Movement in the Late Qing Dynasty

From the very beginning of modern China,the spread of Christianity in China was entangled with the opium problem. The delicate relationship between missionaries,opium trade and the Opium Wars impeded the spread of Christianity in China. Since the 1860s,China's Christian community launched an anti-opium movement so as to stop the increasingly serious tendency of the opium problem. With saving the bodies as its immediate objective,this movement not only saved those Chinese opium addicts’ bodies,but also promoted the spread of Christianity in China effectively.