AH Chalange: Chinese America

not too certain on how tis would work, but at a quick guess, I would say that a second mongol empire that annexes a large tracts of chinese territory or something about equally tremendous is what it would take to pull the ming burocrats off of their high horse and interest them in colonisation.
 
I wonder what they would have called it? Anyone know Chinese? Can you think of a good name for North America?
 
not too certain on how tis would work, but at a quick guess, I would say that a second mongol empire that annexes a large tracts of chinese territory or something about equally tremendous is what it would take to pull the ming burocrats off of their high horse and interest them in colonisation.

Oddly, for a while I thought about a TL where the Southern Ming reach Vancouver around 1700. Hilarity ensued in the 1840s as the Americans reached the Rockies to find a meritocratic industrialized society.
 
I wonder what they would have called it? Anyone know Chinese? Can you think of a good name for North America?
Fusang (a semi-legendary land described as far to the east of China) is generally what I use though I am sure Hendryk or another board sinophile can come up with something better.
 

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Oddly, for a while I thought about a TL where the Southern Ming reach Vancouver around 1700. Hilarity ensued in the 1840s as the Americans reached the Rockies to find a meritocratic industrialized society.
One would think that Lewis & Clark, not to mention the Russian and British expeditions to the area, would be observant enough to locate it . . .
 
One would think that Lewis & Clark, not to mention the Russian and British expeditions to the area, would be observant enough to locate it . . .

Yes everybody would be aware of it already if only because China would nd up opening up to European thought much earlier than OTL. And huge effects elsewhere. See, for instance, Zheng Yuexiang's conquest of Bengal on behalf of a Chinese mercantile consortium, immortalized in the work The Han who would be King.
 
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