chinese empire

Hello all, Yuan Shikai was a Chinese Revolutionary general who became president of the Republic of China in 1912. His tenure is widely regarded as little more than a corrupt dictatorship, and in 1915, he went so far as to abolish the Republic and proclaim a new "Chinese Empire," styling himself...

With any pod between 1450-1850, have Americans be immigrating to China rather than otl's Chinese migration. A likely destination for settlement (for those who aren't just temporarily trying to strike it rich in the cities anyway) would be the Xinjiang region. How likely is it that the American...

Pretty much what it says on the title. How can we have a China that loves all things portuguese? Note that I DO NOT mean a european-dominated one or the conversion of the chinese to Christianity. Rather, the goal is to see how Portugal could cause a good impression, to the point there's a vast...

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...

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...

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...