鸦片战争前后金星门的鸦片贸易

The Opium Trade at Golden-star Anchorage Before and After the Opium War

位于广东珠江口西侧的金星门,在鸦片战争前后以其独特的地理位置和有利的条件,从19世纪20年代外国鸦片船的偶然碇泊所,发展到30年代外国鸦片船的固定碇泊所,四五十年代则成为广州市场甚至整个珠江三角洲市场鸦片的重要供应地。对金星门鸦片贸易的个案作较为深入的分析,对探讨鸦片战争前后中西关系的演变,有一定的学术价值。

Golden-star anchorage（or Camsingmoon）, lying to the west of Pearl River estuary, was developed into a center for importing opium before and after the opium war. In the 1820s, a few foreign opium vessels an-chored at Golden-star anchorage by chance; however, numbers of vessels came here frequently in the 1830s. In the 1840s and 1850s, the anchorage became the center of opium trade in the delta of Pearl River. It has some academic value to analyze the opium trade at Golden-star anchorage for discussing the development of the Sino-Western rela- tions before and after the opium war.