The difference of system is the root cause of China's failure.

The decadent autocratic monarchy in the Qing Dynasty was doomed to perish, the rulers were incompetent, closed to the outside world, their armaments were slack, the natural economy was almost collapsed, and the financial expenditure was jumbled, but the rulers were still dreaming of China as a great country, did not think about reform, and the river was going downhill.

1868 After the Meiji Restoration, Japan overthrew the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, implemented a constitutional monarchy, got rid of the feudal autocratic rule that hindered the development of capitalism, abandoned vassals and set up counties, moved toward civilization, reformed education, and developed the capitalist economy, becoming increasingly powerful.

The difference in military strength is also one of the reasons for the failure.

Although the Westernization School of the Qing government carried out the Westernization Movement, introduced advanced western technology, developed military strength, and established three naval divisions, namely Beiyang, Nanyang and Fujian, but the management mode was outdated and the equipment was slowly updated, which greatly reduced the naval strength.

However, Japan made use of the scientific and technological achievements of the two industrial revolutions in the West to vigorously develop its military undertakings, and due to the transition from capitalism to imperialism, Japan actively invaded and expanded abroad, and its strength should not be underestimated.

Furthermore, the disparity in economic strength is the objective reason for China's failure. The backward small-scale peasant economy is doomed to be defeated by the advanced big machine production of capitalism.

Of course, we can't ignore the influence of the two opium wars in the Sino-Japanese War. The huge compensation gave the Qing government a heavy economic pressure, and the incompetent Qing government immediately passed on the heavy pressure to the poor under its rule. In this way, the whole society is shaken and the economy is even more embarrassed.

In addition, the Qing government's mentality of underestimating the enemy and its inability to understand the reality correctly and objectively are also the reasons for its failure.

Many reasons doomed the historical end of the fiasco of the Sino-Japanese and Qing dynasties in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

This is basically the case, institutionally, militarily, economically, left over from the war and subjectively. . It's all analyzed. I can add or delete what I think is wrong, or add some comments to learn from history and so on. . But don't be too academic, don't copy Baidu Encyclopedia, don't focus too much on one aspect, and don't be too data-oriented. After all, this is a senior two paper. Papers should be written according to their own learning stage. Start (a disease)