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11 J. E. Asia & Int'l L. 375 (2018)
The Triple Intervention: A Forgotten Memory in the Discourse of the Nineteenth Century's International Law

handle is hein.journals/jeasil11 and id is 375 raw text is: The Triple Intervention 375 The Triple Intervention: A Forgotten Memory in the Discourse of the Nineteenth Century's International Law Bijun Xu* The 19th century's international law distinguished civilized from non-civilized States resulting in any country desiring equal treatment was required to obtain recognition from those already deemed civilized. Japan was able to join the civilized world by presenting a civilized image of itself in the First Sino-Japanese War, which was depicted by Western legal scholars as a clash between barbarism and civilization. Neither Japanese nor Western scholars of international law, however, have touched on the issue of the Triple Intervention. This incident serves as a case study for re-evaluating the operation of Western countries' international legal standards. The argument is, that these countries cloak their motives in legal language for self-aggrandizement, thereby demonstrating the ahistorical nature of the West's rhetoric of civilization. Further, this incident taught Japan the lesson that international law is concerned not with morality but with power. Keywords The Triple Intervention, 19th century's International Law, Discourse of Civilization, Japan, First Sino-Japanese War Post-doctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University, China. LL.B. (Tsinghua), LL.M. (UMich), Ph.D. (HKU). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0104-8749. This article is revised and updated version of Chapter VII of the author's doctoral dissertation submitted to the graduate committee of the University of Hong Kong. This work was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. The author may be contacted at: xubijun@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn /Address: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 P.R. China. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2018.11.2.06 XI JEAIL 2 (2018)