Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Port Arthur massacre (1894)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Port Arthur, 1894”
21–24 Nov 1894 — Japanese troops took the fortress from China, then killed captured soldiers and many civilians in the town. About 2,600 deaths in the town are documented; estimates that also include soldiers and the surrounding countryside reach 20,000 or more. The journalist James Creelman’s reports brought an international outcry.
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- Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars (chapter 6 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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- Mao’s China
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