Your challenge is to imagine a version of the ancient Chinese philosophy of Legalism, and envision what a modern version of it would look like, preferably I'd like to see how you guys think Legalism would interact with gunpowder or the industrial revolution.
I've gotten a lot of interest in Legalism, and one thing I'm wondering about would be, what would its civil service have been like? In the OTL Chinese Civil Service, passing it mostly involved memorizing the Four Books and the Five Classics, so would the Legalist Civil Service do the same? Would...
Your challenge is to take the ancient Chinese philosophy of Legalism and have it molded into something like a Chinese version of fascism. Maybe all the chaos of the warlord period means some people are gonna brush up a few history books and decide to imitate the Qin state?