What's your favourite kind of China?

[Velkas]

Based on the recent polls on Russia and Italy:

Imperial (any dynasty, except for foreign dynasties)
Nationalist (Republic of China)
Communist (People's Republic of China)
Divided (into 2 or 3 separate states: Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern Song, PRC and ROC)
Balkanized (into several states: warlord period)
Occupied (by Monguls, Manchus, Japan, western Imperial powers, etc.)
Other (includes Taiping China)

[Iori]

Divided into 4-5 states; Tibet, Xinjiang, Northern China, Southern China and a Yunnan based state.

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by Iori

Divided into 4-5 states; Tibet, Xinjiang, Northern China, Southern China and a Yunnan based state.

What, no Manchuria?

[Velkas]

Originally Posted by Iori

Divided into 4-5 states; Tibet, Xinjiang, Northern China, Southern China and a Yunnan based state.

Ah, but that's no fun. Can't have a Sinowank with a balkanized China.

(In reality though, something like that would be my preference for how things should have worked out, but I do rather like a powerful, unified Imperial China as well.)

[PlayerOne]

"Yep, voting Imperial-- wait, Three Kingdoms? Go back! No! No!"

For more accurate results, subtract one from Imperial and add one to Divided.

[Color-Copycat]

Balkanised! A united China is a strong China, and a strong China is a scary China.

[Abhakhazia]

Nationalist China is the best China!

[Iori]

Originally Posted by Tsao

What, no Manchuria?

Meh, the Manchurians dismantled the Navy and produced a line of lackluster Emperors, that said, I do like Alt. Manchukuo.

Originally Posted by Velkas

Ah, but that's no fun. Can't have a Sinowank with a balkanized China.

That's not Balkanized China, Balkanized China would be every Ethnic group getting its own state, since that's what Balkaization means.

[Zuvarq]

Originally Posted by Abhakhazia

Nationalist China is the best China!

Imperial China is Grandest China!
Nationalist China is Best China!
Communist China is People's China!

[Abhakhazia]

Originally Posted by Zuvarq

Imperial China is Grandest China!
Nationalist China is Best China!
Communist China is People's China!

Balkanized China is the craziest China!

[Velkas]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

Balkanised! A united China is a strong China, and a strong China is a scary China.

And a scary China is an awesome China.

Originally Posted by Iori

That's not Balkanized China, Balkanized China would be every Ethnic group getting its own state, since that's what Balkaization means.

Balkanize: n. divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually hostile states or groups.

[jakewilson]

I'm assuming that everlasting one-world-government Ming counts as 'Imperial.'

[Velkas]

Originally Posted by jakewilson

I'm assuming that everlasting one-world-government Ming counts as 'Imperial.'

That would indeed be correct.

[Velkas]

Originally Posted by PlayerOne

"Yep, voting Imperial-- wait, Three Kingdoms? Go back! No! No!"

For more accurate results, subtract one from Imperial and add one to Divided.

For even more accurate results, subtract one from Divided, and add one to Imperial.

(Yes, I've changed my mind. But Imperial China's just too good to give up. Nothing against the Three Kingdoms Period, or Communist China, or several of the other options, though... I like all of them.)

[alex costa]

Voted for the PRC. As it actually achieved something the others haven't it turned China into a world power.

[pieman97405]

Anything but communist.

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by alex costa

Voted for the PRC. As it actually achieved something the others haven't it turned China into a world power.

I guess the Great Leap Forward, the CR, and the 6/4 Incident sort of ruin that achievement for me.

[alex costa]

Originally Posted by Tsao

I guess the Great Leap Forward, the CR, and the 6/4 Incident sort of ruin that achievement for me.

Well those were bad but then comes Xiaoping and he basically helped turn China into a power.

[TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner]

Independent Tibet, Xingjiang, and Manchuria. Give Inner Mongolia (the part that isn't part of Manchuria) to Mongolia. Then split the rest between a monarchy (preferably Ming, but I'm cool with any flavor of Imperial) in the north centered on Beijing and a republic in the south centered on Nanjing.

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by alex costa

Well those were bad but then comes Xiaoping and he basically helped turn China into a power.

The last name is Deng. And China had the same amount of potential to be a great power under the Guomindang or a reformed Qing empire as under the PRC.