Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY · 1895

Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The conquest of Taiwan”

May–Oct 1895 — Taiwanese defenders proclaimed a Republic of Formosa and resisted the Japanese landing for five months. The republic was short-lived, but armed resistance continued in the hills for years. Japan’s own count put the number of Taiwanese fighters and civilians killed at about 14,000.

When: May–Oct 1895
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars (chapter 6 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas: Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Map showing Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895), site of memory in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — SITE OF MEMORY · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 dated political boundaries · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Joint Japanese–Russian compendium of territorial treaties, 1855–1905 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · The World and Japan database: official historical treaties · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0
Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Russian Federation. Official historical treaty facts
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
GRIPS / University of Tokyo. Historical official treaty facts; no translated prose copied
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.

Domains in earlier years use the published c.1862 village reconstruction, the nearest available source. Tenryo and rebellion overlays are explicitly regional locators and do not claim cadastral or uniform held territory.

proxy: 1855 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · proxy: 1875 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · reconstruction: 1898 Russian lease / 1905 Japanese transfer · reconstruction: 1898 lease · reconstruction: 1910 · reconstruction: 1936–1937 · reconstruction: Chapter route completion/event date · reconstruction: Existing treaty/event date · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1910 · vector: 1905–1911 · vector: 1908–1910 · vector: 1908–1916

Layer records and reconstruction methods