The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was a war of Japanese aggression against China and Korea at the end of 19. According to China's calendar, 1894, the time when the war broke out was the Sino-Japanese War, so it was called the Sino-Japanese War.

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 began with the outbreak of the Toyoda naval battle on July 25th, and ended with the signing of treaty of shimonoseki on April 7th, 1995. The war ended with the defeat of China and the annihilation of the Beiyang Navy. Under the military pressure of Japanese militarism, the Qing government in China signed the unequal treaty-treaty of shimonoseki.

The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it makes Japan's national strength stronger and can rank among the great powers.

Second, treaty of shimonoseki profile:

Treaty of shimonoseki was a treaty signed by China and Japan in Shimonoseki, Japan (now Shimonoseki city) on April 1895 and June 17, the 21st year of Guangxu. Formerly known as the New Testament of Shimonoseki, Japan called treaty of shimonoseki or Nissin Peace Treaty.

According to the provisions of the treaty, China ceded Liaodong Peninsula (failed due to triple interference), Taiwan Province Island and its affiliated islands, and Penghu Islands to Japan, and paid Japan 200 million taels of silver. China has also opened Shashi, Chungking, Suzhou and Hangzhou as trading ports, and allowed Japanese to invest and set up factories in trading ports in China.

This treaty is the most vicious unequal treaty imposed on China by the invaders since the Beijing Treaty, which has benefited Japan greatly and adapted to the desire of imperialist countries to export capital to China. The signing of the treaty marked the end of the Sino-Japanese War.

Third, its influence:

(1) The cession of Taiwan Province Province and other large territories further undermined the integrity of China's sovereignty, stimulated the ambitions of the great powers to carve up China, and further deepened the national crisis. But also caused an unbridgeable gap between Taiwan Province Province and the mainland, which continues to this day.

(2) The huge compensation has increased the burden on the people of China. Meanwhile, it accelerated the development of Japanese militarism. As a result, the Qing Dynasty borrowed a lot of foreign debts, which led foreign powers to control the economic lifeline of China.

(3) The opening of trading ports has enabled the imperialist forces of aggression to penetrate into Chinese mainland.

(4) Being allowed to invest and set up factories in China, other powers cite the "benefit sharing" clause and compete to set up factories in China, which seriously hinders the development of Chinese national capitalism. At the same time, it also reflects the process of the economic aggression of the great powers against China from commodity export to capital export.

Treaty of shimonoseki reflects the imperialist demand for capital export and world division. The invasion of China by foreign capitalism has entered a new stage. In a word, treaty of shimonoseki made China face an unprecedented national crisis, and the semi-colonial degree of China society was greatly deepened.