What Li Hongchang Had Done About Korea During More Than20Years Before Sino-Japanese War

"All history is contemporary history."The effect from Korea on China can not be ignored. So it’s essential to give your sympathetic understanding when you study the history.Three parts compromise this paper as below.Firstly,the fact and the new challenges from Japan and America,that there had always been crisis of justice in the traditional relationship of Korea and Qing Dynasty,according to reactions to each other in the whole history of them.Korea,who sew himself as the victim of bully Qing,had harbored strong suspect to Qing and always been unwilling to see the interfere from him.And interestingly,the emperors of Qing had been happy to accept the respect as Korea had shew,but boring to the troubles the later had brought or would bring to China. Those above are the source of Li Hongchang,who had been in charge of Korea for more than20years before the war.Secondly,the whole work Li Hongchang had done in different periods and his reasons.Before the happened in8th of Guangxu,Li had tried to persuade Korea to open the door to the rest of the world and make friends with other countries,again and again,but in vain.Thought the accident in8th and10th of Guangxu,Li changed his idea and began to control Korea strongly. Given the real fact China faced,Li did not agree the advice from others,and offered his own idea.All his reactions later had been under the strategy of,and made some success to some extents.However,like coin has two sides,the strategy also had some false and could not be relayed on forever.The war between Japan and China in20th of Guangxu reversed the state,and reduced Li Hongchang to the loser of the contest on Korea.The last but not the least,the two factors of Japan and Korea,which were very important but beyond Li Hongchang.Top leaders in China had not appreciated the danger Korea involved or the importance of relaxing muscles of China,who illuminated Li deeply,who,also made China fall far behind Japan at last.Additionally,Korea,whose leaders han not been ready for the crises from the beginning to the end,disappointed Li Hongzhang severely and payed his price lastly.All in all,the work of Li Hongchang about Korea, filled of Inheritance and development, affected by various factors of home and broad, had boasted distinctive features in different periods.And it is necessary to realize these factors.