Quick Facts
- Chinese (Pinyin):
- Maguan Tiaoyue
- Date:
- April 17, 1895
- Context:
- unequal treaty
- Key People:
- Li Hongzhang
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Treaty of Shimonoseki
Shunpanrou Hall, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, Honshu, Japan, where the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in 1895.
Treaty of Shimonoseki
1895, China-Japan
Treaty of Shimonoseki, (April 17, 1895), agreement that concluded the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), which ended in China’s defeat. By the terms of the treaty, China was obliged to recognize the independence of Korea, over which it had traditionally held suzerainty; to cede Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, and the Liaodong (south Manchurian) Peninsula to Japan; to pay an indemnity of 200,000,000 taels to Japan; and to open the ports of Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou to Japanese trade. The Triple Intervention (1895), secured by Russia, France, and Germany, subsequently required Japan to retrocede the Liaodong Peninsula to China in return for an additional indemnity of 30,000,000 taels.
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