In 1884, pro-Japanese Koreans in Seoul led the Gapsin Coup. Tensions between China and Japan rose after China intervened to suppress the uprising. Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi and Li Hongzhang signed the Convention of Tientsin, an agreement to withdraw troops simultaneously, but the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was a military humiliation. The Treaty of Shimonoseki recognized Korean independence and ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores to Japan. The terms might have been harsher, but when Japanese citizen attacked and wounded Li Hongzhang, an international outcry shamed the Japanese into revising them. The original agreement stipulated the cession of Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, but Russia, with its own designs on the territory, along with Germany and France, in what was known as the Triple Intervention, successfully put pressure on the Japanese to abandon the peninsula. COUNT 5
QSN1 What coup happened in 1884? ANS1 Gapsin Coup QSN2 Who was involved in the Gapsin Coup? ANS2 pro-Japanese Koreans QSN3 What resulted between the Chinese and Japanese after the Coup? ANS3 Tensions QSN4 Who signed the Convention of Tientsin? ANS4 Itō Hirobumi and Li Hongzhang QSN5 When did the First Sino-Japanese War happen? ANS5 1895