The First Sino-Japanese War

First Sino-Japanese war . It is quite characteristic that discontent caused by the war was first and foremost revealed by the younger generation and finally was embodied in the reformation of the education sector , aimed at upbringing this new generation of modern-minded citizens

The reforms pursued three major objectives : to modernise the traditional examination system , to eliminate sinecures (jobs with no work responsibility and lucrative salary ) and to found a modern education system focusing on mathematics and science apart from Confucian texts (2 . Furthermore , it was declared that China was to strengthen itself

br and accompany innovation with institutional and ideological change (ibid . The reformative period lasted for 100 days and then ended with a coup-d 'etat , organised by conservative powers . In the long run , this showed that China was still not ready to meet the challenging requirements of democratisation and modernisation , which were posed by the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese war . This eventually led to its complicated position in the Second Sino-Japanese war , where the Japanese army was still better equipped , and the Chinese troops could only fight with the 1 /4th power , when compared to the Japanese

In a long-term perspective the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese war was the first stone to undermine the whole establishment of the Qing dynasty . After the Hundred Dar Reforms failed , it became evident that for the country to keep pace with the world , the royal structure was to be global problem

Another important ramification of the war was the opening of the Chinese empire to European and other influences . Russia , Germany , France and Great Britain entered the region on the position of strong political players and forced China to grant them trade advantages within the country . The positive aspect of the European influence was expansion of the internal market in China and...