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First Sino-Japanese War


00:01:30 1 Background
00:02:25 1.1 Korean politics
00:04:17 1.2 Opening of Korea
00:06:39 1.3 Korean reforms
00:08:57 1.4 Japanese insecurities over Korea
00:11:31 1.5 1882 crisis
00:16:14 1.6 Re-assertion of Chinese influence
00:18:14 1.7 Factional rivalry and ascendancy of the Min clan
00:21:32 1.8 Gapsin Coup
00:25:47 1.9 Nagasaki incident
00:26:26 1.10 Bean controversy
00:26:53 2 Prelude to War
00:27:02 2.1 Kim Ok-gyun affair
00:29:32 2.2 Donghak Rebellion
00:31:29 3 Status of combatants
00:31:38 3.1 Japan
00:32:06 3.1.1 Imperial Japanese Navy
00:34:26 3.1.2 Imperial Japanese Army
00:39:25 3.2 China
00:40:01 3.2.1 Imperial Chinese Army
00:43:50 3.2.2 Beiyang Fleet
00:46:56 3.3 Contemporaneous wars fought by the Qing Empire
00:47:32 4 Early stages
00:50:29 5 Events during the war
00:50:38 5.1 Opening moves
00:52:09 5.2 Sinking of the iKow-shing/i
00:54:33 5.3 Conflict in Korea
00:56:44 5.4 Defeat of the Beiyang fleet
01:00:09 5.5 Invasion of Manchuria
01:02:06 5.6 Fall of Lüshunkou
01:03:50 5.7 Fall of Weihaiwei
01:05:10 5.8 Occupation of the Pescadores Islands
01:08:30 6 End of the war
01:08:39 6.1 Treaty of Shimonoseki
01:10:20 6.2 Japanese invasion of Taiwan
01:12:25 7 Aftermath
01:19:06 8 See also



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The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought by the Japanese Empire against the Qing Empire, primarily for dominance in Korea. After more than six months of unbroken successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the port of Weihaiwei, the Qing government sued for peace in February 1895.
The war demonstrated the failure of the Qing Empire's attempts to modernize its military and fend off threats to its sovereignty, especially when compared with Japan's successful Meiji Restoration. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan; the prestige of the Qing Empire, along with the classical tradition in China, suffered a major blow. The humiliating loss of Korea as a tributary state sparked an unprecedented public outcry. Within China, the defeat was a catalyst for a series of political upheavals led by Sun Yat-sen and Kang Youwei, culminating in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.
The war is commonly known in China as the War of Jiawu (Chinese: 甲午戰爭; pinyin: Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng), referring to the year (1894) as named under the traditional sexagenary system of years. In Japan, it is called the Japan–Qing War (Japanese: 日清戦争, Hepburn: Nisshin sensō). In Korea, where much of the war took place, it is called the Qing–Japan War (Korean: 청일전쟁; Hanja: 淸日戰爭).