1894-1895.
The First Sino-Japanese War.
The target was Korea.
It was a question of regional dominance.
The war demonstrated the failure of the Qing Dynasty.
It was also the proof
of Japanese superiority
which used the Western model
to change its whole structure
at all the levels of the state.
The prestige of China ended
with the humiliating loss of Korea
and the cession of Taiwan.
Chinese defeat was so important
that it worked as a bifurcation point.
Everything had to be changed
in this unpredictable situation
for the dynasty.
The war of Jiawu,
the Japan-Qing War
or the Qing-Japan War ended
with the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.
But the Triple Intervention of Russia, Germany and France
was one of the causes of the Russo-Japanese War
during 1904 and 1905 which ended
with the victory of Japan.