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It was an unequal treaty and ended the First Sino-Japanese War, in which Chinese land and naval forces were decisively defeated by the Japanese. The treaty was signed by Count Ito Hirobumi and Viscount Mutsu Munemitsu for Japan and Li Hongzhang and his son Li Jingfang on behalf of China. The peace conference took place from March 20 to April 17 ...
The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895), or the First China–Japan War, was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Korea. [2] In Chinese it is commonly known as the Jiawu War.
The Triple Intervention or Tripartite Intervention (三国干渉, Sangoku Kanshō) was a diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895 over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, imposed by Japan on Qing China at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War. The treaty, signed on 17 April, had ceded the island of Taiwan and ...
Japan won the war, and China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. The treaty forced the Qing to recognize "the complete independence and autonomy of Korea," thus ending Korea's tributary relationship with the Chinese Qing Dynasty and achieving its independence in 1895.
The International History Review called The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 "an important book that delights and informs", giving particular praise to the book for bringing attention to the Chinese concept of face , something which previous authors had neglected, and went on to suggest that Paine "ends the shortage of books on this pivotal war". [5]
The Pescadores Campaign of March 23–26, 1895 marked the last military operation of the First Sino-Japanese War.As the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki between Qing, China and Japan originally omitted Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands, Japan was able to mount a military operation against them without fear of damaging relations with China.
The Battle of Keelung was the first significant engagement of the Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) on 2–3 June 1895 when the short-lived Republic of Formosa sought to repel the Japanese military forces sent there to occupy the ceded territories, by China's Qing dynasty, of the Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan under the April 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki.
January 20 – February 12 – First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Weihaiwei; March 4 – First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Yingkou; April 17 – Treaty of Shimonoseki with Empire of Japan [1] islands of Taiwan and Penghu ceded to Japan; April 23 – Triple Intervention by Russian Empire, German Empire and French Third Republic. [2]