Re-evaluating the Diplomatic Activity of Qi Ying

In recent years,some academics think that the diplomatic activity of Qi Ying is successful,but this view is in-correct.By analyzed the historical fact,we can make a conclusion that in the last period of Opium War,Qi Ying advocated the Qing government should surrender to the Britain,and he must take responsibility for the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking,his diplomatic activity is belong to treason.After this war,although he was the important mastermind and executor about the external policy in Qing government,his diplomatic standpoint was not changed.Some academics ap-prove his behavior in the negotiation of Sino-British customs tariff;think that he held the stand of the ban on opiumsmoking,regain the lost Zhoushan cleverly,and handled conflict intelligently.All of this view is not correct;the diplomatic activity of Qi Ying was just followed the bad habit of passive to the foreign.He never had the courage to break the traditional idea,or learn from the enemy.The view which believed Qi Ying was open-minded and equitable is no ba-sis in fact.