What's your favourite kind of China?

[TaylorS]

A surviving empire that has become a democratic constitutional monarchy.

[Vizio]

A China divided North-South by the Communists and the Kuomintang.

[Amedras]

For the sake of writing possibilities: there is no China but Taiping China, and Hong Xiuquan is its Heavenly Younger Brother.

[Kishan]

Tibet and may be Xingjiang and Manchuria too as independent states. The Han dominated portions of China as a National Republic, may be under Kuomintang rule.

[BBadolato]

I prefer a united Cao-Wei China, that doesn't let the Sima's take power.

[Simon]

Imperial China where the Self-Strengthening Movement is able to come out on top so that serious reforms can be implemented. This leads to the First Sino-Japanese War ending as pretty much a draw with an improving military heading off any future conflicts and in the very distant future China as a constitutional monarchy.

[Delvestius]

Occupied.

Now I feel like an imperialist dick.

[Orko]

Balkanized/divided into: independent Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria, Yunnan, with Inner Mongolia going to Mongolia, Taiwan to Japan or another power, and a few more cities to Western powers, and China itself divided into Communist in the West, Republican/nationalist in the North, and Imperial in the south. I was thinking, perhaps, that Yuan Shikai or some other warlord who declared himself emperor only loses power in North China, which still remains republican, and later communists manage to take power in the west from several warlords but neither one of these sides can defeat one another and China remains divided a la Korea or Germany.

[Ordinary joe]

Imperial (any dynasty, except for foreign dynasties)

For much of China's history it was ruled by foreign dynasties though. The Qing were Manchu.

[Velkas]

Originally Posted by Ordinary joe

For much of China's history it was ruled by foreign dynasties though. The Qing were Manchu.

Yeah, I specifically included the Monguls and Manchus as examples of 'Occupied China'. They probably would have fit better with Imperial China, though...

[LeoXiao]

I know the most about the Warring States (or least a part of it) and the 20th century period. For me, the Waring States were cool in a "hey this is when like all of China's important philosophy and stuff was created", like what the Greeks were doing in the same timeframe, while the Nationalists were cool because they were the first Chinese who really recognized the need to modernize, and had badass-looking troops with German equipment. Their flag and symbols were IMO pretty cool too. Plus they fought most of the Chinese version of the Great Patriotic War for 8 years single-handedly in a desperate struggle that could only be made more epic if it had more tanks and rocket artillery.

The Communists had an interesting aesthetic (those Cultural Revolution posters are all kinds of intimidating with that red-white-black color scheme) and a really interesting history behind their rise to power, with all kinds of cliffhangers and developments. Too bad they were completely unscrupulous, evil bandits who ended up destroying a great amount of cultural heritage, killing tens of millions of people, and ruining the national character. It is my wish that they are kicked out of power and their crimes brought to light to the fullest extent possible.

[Tyr]

Divided.
Its rather big and monocultural iotl. Nice to see something different.

[King Helü of Wu]

1) Qin Dynasty last until today, and we are living under the 80th Emperor (not the Qing Dynasty)

2) The seven states of the warring states era survived. (Paradoxically, it contradicts with my first choice.)
3) A democracy lead by a Beiyang Government
(ROC is not owned by the KMT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

4) Nomadic China (a group of Han Chinese adopting nomadic lifestyle, and become overlord of the Eurasian steppe .)

5) An occupied China, but by descendents of the oversea Chinese.

6) A Mao-less communist China which follows the soviet model closely but with more flexibility.

[Texian]

Divided, with colonial Sphere's of influence, by as many other nations as you can pack in there!!!