Sixty years later, opium was being sold in huge quantities, and the tottering Qing dynasty, ruling an increasingly impoverished and decadent populace, could stand it no more: They decided to strictly ban opium, and burned existing stocks. The result was the Opium War, which launched a century of national humiliation for China.
鴉片大量傾銷中國六十多年後，已是國窮民衰的清廷，在忍無可忍下焚燒煙毒，採行嚴禁政策，結果爆發「鴉片戰爭」，百多年屈辱的近代史自此展開。