1904-1905: Late Qing Dynasty and Three Kingdoms
by Li Jie
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The Japanese are preparing for war intensively, the Russians are confidently responding to the war, and the people of the Qing Dynasty do not know how to choose sides... The Qing Empire, the Japanese Empire, the Russian Empire, the "Three Kingdoms of the Late Qing Dynasty" who gambled on their national destiny, the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) between the Empress Dowager Cixi, Emperor Meiji, and the last Tsar, seemed to be gambling on the "Zero World War"! Only six years after the war, the Qing edifice that had stood for nearly 300 years collapsed. Today's Chinese people, when talking about Japanese military leaders, may know names such as Tojo Hideki, Yamamoto Isoroku, Okamura Neji, Doihara Kenji, etc., But they may not all know that these Japanese army and navy generals during World War II were all junior officers who grew up during the Russo-Japanese War. The so-called "idol" they share is the Japanese army's Oyama Iwa. The Russo-Japanese War is what historians call "World War Zero."
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