First Sino-Japanese War

Name: First Sino-Japanese War
Start: 1894-08-01
End: 1895-04-17
Location: Korean Peninsula

日清戦争

Event · war · 1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895 · Korean Peninsula, South Korea

The war between Qing China and Japan over control of Korea; Japan opened it in July 1894 with an attack on the Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul1. Its military successes, with those of the Russo-Japanese War, fed Japan’s nationalism and its turn to empire2. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 청일전쟁, 「청일전쟁은 1894년~1895년 조선에 대한 지배권을 둘러싸고 중국(청)과 일본 간에 벌어진 전쟁이다 … 1894년 7월 경복궁을 기습 공격함으로써」. ↩ Mason 2005, pp. 346–347, 382–383. ↩ Literatur Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 청일전쟁: Anon., 청일전쟁, in: 한국민족문화대백과사전 (Encyclopedia of Korean Culture), 한국학중앙연구원 (Academy of Korean Studies), https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0056610 (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026). Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.