The Different Effects of the Sino-Japanese War on China and Japan

(20 18 Ezhou) After a certain World War I, the great powers were ecstatic and claimed that "China was discovered for the second time". A British newspaper commented: "China is a big thing in the East, and its status has been shaken ... Today, people in Europe, blessed as they are, all talk about dividing up China." This war is the Sino-Japanese War.

(20 15 Xiaogan) Some scholars believe that after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, China began to learn from the western "advanced technology" and the western "political system". The "political system" here should be understood as the establishment of the bourgeois political system.