(YAO JIANFENG)

A journalist shoots exhibits at an exhibition marking the 120th anniversary of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95, in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, on July 24. The exhibition displays more than 200 files and photos from the war, in which China was defeated.

After the war, Japan forced China's then ruling Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to sign the unequal Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which it annexed Taiwan and its affiliated islands.