Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 'Yan Burtaniya sun mamaye Qingniwa na ɗan gajeren lokaci a lokacin Yaƙin Opium na Biyu a 1858, amma sun mayar da shi ga ikon Sin (Qing) a 1860. Port Arthur a ƙarshen Liaodong Peninsula ya ɗauki sunan Ingilishi daga Royal Navy Lieutenant William Arthur, yayin da Sinawa suka kira shi Lüshun. Kodayake kasar Sin ta ƙarfafa yankin sosai, inda ta ba da izinin kasuwanci tare da baƙi, a cikin Yaƙin Sino-Japan na farko Japan ta hanzarta shawo kan waɗannan tsaron a ranar 21 ga Nuwamba, 1894 a cikin
Yaƙin Lüshunkou, nan da nan ya aikata kisan kiyashi na Port Arthur. A watan Afrilu na shekarar 1895, kasar Sin ta amince da shan kashi a yakin farko na kasar Sin da Japan, ta ba da yankin Liaodong, Taiwan da Penghu, da kuma yin wasu abubuwan da suka dace a cikin Yarjejeniyar Shimonoseki (17 ga Afrilu, 1895).