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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1895, April 17 | |
The TREATY OF SHIMONOSEKI was signed by It Hirobumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mutsu Munemitsu (1844–97), and Li Hongzhang, the Chinese ambassador extraordinary. China recognized the full “independence” of Korea; ceded to Japan the Pescadores, Taiwan, and the Liaodong peninsula; paid an indemnity of 200 million taels; opened four more treaty ports; negotiated a new commercial treaty (1896); and gained extraterritoriality within China. Japanese exports to China soared over the next decade or more, as did commercial investment in China, the bulk of the latter in Manchuria. The war with Russia (1904–5) similarly stimulated the domestic economy. | 1 |
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| Japan had no choice but to yield to the Tripartite Intervention of France, Germany, and Russia, and relinquish the Liaodong peninsula, receiving instead from China 30 million additional taels of indemnity. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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