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Thanks for the vote of confidence, and welcome to the Blue-Eyed Infidel and any other new readers! If you’re all on board, then so am I! Like I said before, the hiatus may have to go on for a bit longer while I wrap up some real-world work. But come July (or August at the absolute...

Thanks for your comments, you guys! I was honestly pretty surprised and flattered to see that there are still people out there who spare an occasional thought for this TL. As you can tell from my very, very late reply, I’ve become a lot more busy now that I was last year when “A Cat...

Love. It. I want to see this film.

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi. Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China (1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC) (1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC) (1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1] (1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2] (1975-1976)...

Hmmm, swap the Red Guards for the Blue Shirts... that could be interesting! :D

Maybe you could stir up some trouble in the southwest, in Yunnan perhaps? Some of the smaller ethnic groups there could agitate for independence, perhaps backed by some outside financier running guns and money through Burma.

Also, not only is there a proportionally bigger Han population, but even the ethnic Manchus are pretty Han-ified, and don't have as strong of an independent cultural identity as Tibetans or Uighurs. As far as I know, they don't have their own particular religion, and Manchu is pretty much a...

Interesting developments at the reconciliation meeting. I'd be curious in learning more about the split between Li Ruihan and Zhao-Yang, and about the kinds of debates going on behind the scenes. The scuffle over Li's defection seems to suggest that there are plenty of powerbrokers, even...

Looks like it. Considering both the chairman (Wang) and the premier (still Hua Guofeng, though we don't hear much from him anymore) are now both discredited leaders hanging on as mere ceremonial figureheads, they need to find somebody to fill the leadership gap. And since Ye and his colleagues...

Interesting update -- and fun, too :) I may have missed earlier occurrences of this, but I find it very intriguing that Nixon is backing Agnew to the hilt. I wonder what's in it for him?

QIAO DAI, Worker: He [Ye Jianying] didn’t speak to us like the other leaders did. He didn’t even speak like he did when we saw him on television. When he began, a few of us couldn’t understand what he was saying. It took us a moment to realize that he wasn’t speaking Mandarin, he was using...

I could be wrong, but wasn't New Democracy basically just a ploy to help the CCP consolidate power? Not only Mao, but all the other top Party bigwigs had no intention of letting it go on for too long, but simply intended New Dem. to serve as a transition phase to a more hard-line Communist system.

Good idea putting the main points of the TL into an actual timeline. The work of rebuilding is getting pretty messy in China, and the regional splits seem to be a lot more serious than I had previously thought. Interested to see how it all unfolds.

More than 200,000 people gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday for a ceremony commemorating the soldiers killed in China’s four-month long war with Vietnam. The hour-long ceremony centered around the Monument to the People’s Heroes, a tall granite obelisk in the center of the...

Great update! Your grasp of the political situation in other countries around China is really impressive, and it adds a great deal to this TL.

Well, something is bound to happen in the not-so-distant future. All the reforms and readjustments that have been attempted in an effort to restore some semblance of order in the post-Cultural Revolution era -- all the way back to 1969 -- may have aleviated some symptoms but haven't cured the...

Didn't realize Bolton was McCain's secretary of state. Interesting choice, and definitely one that's got some, umm, interesting potential.

This is going to be good. :) Really looking forward to how the messy work of building a new regime turns out. Can't wait for the next update!

(Editor’s Note: Dr. Eugene Walton, professor of Medieval history at the National Australian University, recently returned from a two-week visit to the People’s Republic of China.) …I saw no evidence of either the mass starvation or bloody civil war which the right wing Hong Kong tabloids and...

Cliffhanger!