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That's real, but the problem is China is weak during the late Qing era, so the native Americans look down on Chinese immigrants. If Chinese immigrants come to the Americas during the strong periods of China, I'm sure that they will look at Chinese immigrants differently.

Speaking about Song dynasty, don't forget that football originated in China. A football made of 4 pieces (Han & Tang dynasties) A football made of 6 pieces (Tang & Song dynasties) A football made of 8 pieces (Tang & Song dynasties) A football made of 12 pieces (Song Dynasty)

The Americas will also be a good place for settler colonies for another reason ; it's because native Americans in general do look like Chinese but with darker colors. In OTL, Chinese immigrants in the Americas think of them as Chinese warriors who crossed overseas a long time ago and had become...

Maybe not on par with Japan but I'm sure that it will do much better without US barging in and screwed up everything.

Yep, why not have Chinese pirates building their own kingdoms while pledging loyalty to the current Chinese dynasty ? Why not have privateering allowed against hostile nations ? Here are some of infamous pirates in Ming era : Liang Daoming (have his descendants rule over Palembang) and...

Speaking about Needham, the book titled "The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention" is very interesting.

Well, it seems that I myself also got infected with this "Song is weak" argument. :p But still from what I understand, many of Song emperors are more of the artist/poet type and are not strong and/or decisive leaders in wartime. The problem is that Song is surrounded by strong nomads, so...

It's possible to have high quality wool attracting enough Chinese attention as an incentive to colonize Siberia. Yak wool and Qiviut (wool from Muskox) are some of the examples. If Ming industrialize early and there is significant demand of coal and petroleum (By 347 AD, oil was produced from...

The use of lithography to mass produce printed materials is a brilliant idea :) Glad to see that more attention is being given to learning law, military affairs, medicine, and mathematics. Hope to see some form of Chinese scientific society soon. In OTL, Wang Anshi neglected forming a...

Shi Dakai is a good military commander and he's also close to the people. I'll give him credit for that. But in OTL it's not clear whether he will be willing to to give very important posts to people from other religions should he become the ruler of all China. His failure when mediating...

Some doubts about this timeline : 1.The majority of Chinese are what you call adherents to Chinese folk religion which is a mix of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and local tradition. There are also Muslims in China. Shi Dakai does sound like a die-hard fanatic to me. Does it mean that Shi...

Another possibility is for Yuan ChongHuan to rebel and found his own dynasty, like what he did in Jared's timeline; Lands of Red and Gold. I'm sure that he will able to reunite China in a short period of time.

I suggest you read about "Zheng China" at althistory.wikia.com. Southeast Asia, India and Africa should be among them.

So what is your point here ? There is no way to know the exact borders of the reach of any countries, especially in premodern era and how "thoroughly" ruled an area supposedly under a dynasty. I can also argue that Mongol empire's map is exaggerated with the same excuse that you use. What...

Exactly, after all the Chinese was the one who invented it in the first place. Yuan ChongHuan from the Ming dynasty kicked Nurhaci and Hong Taiji's asses hard. Taken from wikipedia : "It is noted that Yuan was said to have studied every aspect of the cannon for it to fire accurately at the...

Agreed. It is likely to be some propaganda from Li Shimin to discredit Li Jiancheng (that's why I think he's actually quite competent), and so what ? It is Li Shimin who scored important victories to Tang and not Li Jiancheng. Why should Tang settle on "any" emperors and not excellent...

Those maps are the ones that are used in China, and as usual there are those who are unwilling to admit the reality and say that those maps are exaggerated. Have you seen the map of Tang dynasty in the English section of Wikipedia ? It's really ridiculous how small the map is compared to the...

Agreed. One thing to be sure : Li Yuanji seems to be quite competent but unfortunately still far below Li Shimin's capability. Quite a number of Tang victories up to there-unification of China under Tang are due to Li Shimin's capability and not of his father - the founding emperor of Tang...

Some of the nations listed on the list are prominent maritime nations such as Japan, Srivijaya, Java (island), Sumatra (island) etc. Too bad that his descendants do not get the hint that Ming needs a strong navy and cannot rely on strong army alone. Here's the list in wikipedia (Chinese only)...

That was a great update :) I cannot find any detailed info about Ma Daifeng in Wikipedia. This is the first time I've heard about him.