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The Nepalese Revolution broke out in March 19, 1923 initially as a student and dissident march against the Rana Regime of Nepal. Chandra Shumsher Rana, the autocratic Rana ruler of Nepal at the time, ordered the Nepalese Gendarmerie to open fire at the protestors. Nepal had long been dissident...

Foreword: When people consider the closest we’ve been to nuclear war, they often think of the Cuban Missile Crisis, or Able Archer, or even the Petrov Incident. But the real contender not many talk about is the almost-nuking of China in October, 1969. The Soviet Union was potentially only...

OTL, Korea was the target of Japanese imperialism as the later industrialized and sought to spread out into the seas of Asia and the ripe pickings of China. Your goal is to have Korea be the one to modernize and become the dominant power of east asia (at least until/if china gets its shit...

So this was something I had made a WI thread about nearly three years ago, and I wanted to re-examine it. IOTL, the Emperor, upon his death, ordered the execution of the general Yuan Shikai, who was an ally of the Empress Dowager. However, Yuan Shikai managed to escape death. He would later...

There have been a couple of "What if the Nationalists had won the Chinese Civil War?" threads over the past few weeks, but its been a while since there was one specifically discussing a non-communist China's economy, and its repercussions. A Chiang led China would have avoided the disastrous...

So the son of Peroz III, Narseih was going to Persia, or more specifically the Persian steppes to be restored to the sassanian throne with the aid of a noble named Pei with the backing of the Tang Dynasty. Apparently the plan was to liberate transoxiana, and then restore Peroz III's rump state...

During the Asuka period, Japan adopted many things from China on a grand scale. Not only was Buddhism officially introduced to Japan, but also Chinese ideas about government, the arts, architecture, and other things. Chinese culture left an indelible mark on Japan. What if Japan hadn't taken so...

China is, by many if not most analysis, destined to become a superpower this century, comparable to the US. For a period between 1991 and a debatable date, the US was considered the only remaining superpower, with the USSR falling from its former ideological, symbolic, and of course material...

So, the Manchu dynasty was the last Imperial house to rule China (if you don't consider Yuan Shikai Empire, and I still see people today claiming that they are not "true" chinese and instead "northern barbarians" that enslaved the chinese people (something strange since both the Republic of...

What would be the consequence of that? Would both empires help eachother out, only keep a trading connection, or lose their crap after a century or two and go to war?

after the cold war ended, the United States enjoyed a period of sole dominion, and according to some, actually had very little to fear from the soviets. But I'm curious, is there anyway to fully dismantle the United States and the Soviet Union as world powers by the late twentieth century...

OTL's China in 2020 has essentially no institutional continuity with those of China pre-1912. Multiple revolutions, purges, wars, etc. since that time have made it so that the current government of the People's Republic of China is essentially a distinct entity from that of earlier imperial...

Portugal has three very important distinctions in the age of exploration: starting it, reaching India before any other european, and the only European territory in China prior to the 19th century; Macau. But Macau was still only one city, and what's a city to a massive island? Your goal, with a...

The Albazinians were decendants of Russian Cossacks who defected to the Chinese Empire in the Russia-Qing border wars of the 17th century. This Russo-Chinese ethnic group was never large and most Albazinians seem to have lost their unique identity by 20/21st century...

Why were European kingdoms ruled by branch families with relations to the main family; instead of rotating dynasties like China or being overthrown by a powerful military(dukes) leader like Tipu Sultan; and or Saladin; or collapsing like the Gupta and Mughal empires?

I've been reading some threads on this forum on the August Coup, an attempted 1991 Soviet coup d'état. Communist hardliners tried to seize power from Gorbachev, President and General Secretary of the USSR. They opposed his reforms and the new union treaty, which decentralized a lot of power to...