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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2010
The present war is an object lesson in many ways. The positions of the two greatest Eastern Powers of the present day have, within a few short months, been completely reversed. China, regarded as the Bluebeard of the East, is disclosed as a sheep parading in wolfs clothing; while Japan, who has never been seriously thought of at all, has with one bound suddenly entered the comity of nations and become one of us, whether we will it or no …If the Western world has been blind to the fact that Japan was steadily and surely working herself up to a position which should command for her recognition and respect, it has been equally blind to the extent to which official corruption was undermining China. The same period which has loaded Japan with laurels of admiration and applause, has sufficed to cover China with confusion and contempt …[N]othing short of a complete upheaval and breaking down of old systems seems practicable.
The North-China Herald, 28 December 1894Without losing a single ship or a single battle, Japan broke down the power of China, enlarged her own territory, and changed the whole political face of the Far East.
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born U.S. writer resident in Japan, 1896After the fall of Port Arthur it had become evident to some officials in China that their country had to sue for peace or the Japanese army would march on Peking. In all, China would send three peace missions to Japan, two before the destruction of the Beiyang Squadron at Weihaiwei and the final one afterward.
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