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Meiji imperialism Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War. Events. 1876 Treaty of Kangwha--Puson, Wonsan, Inchon--development of trade interests 1880 Korean King asks for Japanese military advisers
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Events • 1876 Treaty of Kangwha--Puson, Wonsan, Inchon--development of trade interests • 1880 Korean King asks for Japanese military advisers • 1882 Korean soldiers revolt against Japanese advisers; Qing dispatch troops, reinstate Queen Min; Chinese advisers; Japanese reforms abolished • 1884 Kim Ok-kyun and Pak Yong-hyo attempt counter-coup with Japapnese support • 1884 Convention of Tientsin (Itô Hirobumi & Li Hong Zhang)
1884 Korean coup d’etat attempt • Kim Ok-kyun • Protegé of Fukuzawa • Favored Meiji-style modernization in Korea
Fukuzawa Yukichi • Datsu-A, nyû-Ô • Escape from Asia; Join Europe
Sino-Japanese War • Kim-Ok-kyun assassinated 1894 • Tonghak uprising • Chinese and Japanese send troops in
Treaty of Shimonoseki • China recognizes Korean “independence” • Liaodong Peninsula ceded over to Japan • 200 million (300) million tael indemnity • Formosa (Taiwan) ceded over to Japan • Japan becomes a treaty port power in China • MFN • Extended Yangtze River navigation rights • Manufacture in China
Triple Intervention, 1895 • Russia, France, and Germany recommend that Japan return Lioadong Peninsula • 1898: Russia takes Liaodong Concession, builds up Port Arthur
Alfred Thayer Mahan • “Defense means not merely defense of our territory, but defense of our just national interests, whatever they be and wherever they are.”
Diplomatic maneuvering • 1896 Russo-Chinese agreement • 1898 Nishi-Rosen agreement • Yamagata advocates: • 1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance • Itô advocates: • Man-Kan Kokan (respective spheres)
Russian expansion to the East • 1912 map. Maps courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.
Manchuria and the Liaotung (Kwantung) Peninsula February 8, 1904 : Japanese attack Port Arthur March: J. Army lands in Korea May: J. Army lands in Liaotung Russians fall back to Mukden Jan. 2, 1905 Port Arthur surrender Feb-Mar 1905 Battle of Mukden May 1905 Tsushima Straits Sept. 5 1905 Portsmouth Treaty 1905 Russian Revolution • 1911 map. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.
203 meter hill • Gen. Nogi takes hill after several months, Dec. 1904 • Bombards city and harbor • Destroy’s Russian fleet off Pt. Arthur • Jan. 1905 Pt. Arthur surrender • Frees Adm. Togo to refit before Baltic Fleet arrives, April 1905
Battle of Tsushima Straits • Baltic Fleet • Admiral Tōgō • “crossing the t”
Ito Hirobumi and Korean Prince • 1907 • Korean King sends secret mission to Hague • Ito raises Japanese control: forces king’s abdication; abolishes Korean army; Japanese judges/police
Itô Assassinated, 1909Korea annexed, 1910 • Ang Chungun, Korean national hero