AHC: Chinese Hapsburgs

Not possible. The closest I've even seen was a scenario where Jesuits had a major impact in China resulting in a Christian Chinese population that accepted the King in Spain as Emperor, giving literal meaning to the proverb: "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away."
 
The French under a sucsessful Napoleon III carve out a Chinese state in the alt-1890s,putting a Habsburg in Power as Emperor of China.
 
The French under a sucsessful Napoleon III carve out a Chinese state in the alt-1890s,putting a Habsburg in Power as Emperor of China.

Only to see it backfire horribly some years later, I guess.
Seriously, an individual Hapsburg family member might conceivably have a very bizarre life that finally sees him leading a succesful dynasty change in China after he somehow had gone native there.
It's not easy to see exactly how, but I guess it is not ASB territory though very unlikely.
I offer a not-so-wildly-inplausible variant of the above: young Habsburg princess travelling by sea, either pregnant or with a baby. Her ship is captured by Barbary pirates. Fearing for the life of her offsrping, she conceals her true identity so she cannot be recognized for ransom and ends sold as a slave in, say, Egypt, and from there to a port where a Malay slaver can find her and bring her to the Far East.
Some adventures and some handwavium, and she finally ends in the Forbidden city as a concubine, with her son with her. She's learned to be a schemer at this point and works her way through the years to succession for her son (not without some assassination to ease things I suppose) that after some point is actually believed to be the true father.
 
Only to see it backfire horribly some years later, I guess.
Seriously, an individual Hapsburg family member might conceivably have a very bizarre life that finally sees him leading a succesful dynasty change in China after he somehow had gone native there.
It's not easy to see exactly how, but I guess it is not ASB territory though very unlikely.
I offer a not-so-wildly-inplausible variant of the above: young Habsburg princess travelling by sea, either pregnant or with a baby. Her ship is captured by Barbary pirates. Fearing for the life of her offsrping, she conceals her true identity so she cannot be recognized for ransom and ends sold as a slave in, say, Egypt, and from there to a port where a Malay slaver can find her and bring her to the Far East.
Some adventures and some handwavium, and she finally ends in the Forbidden city as a concubine, with her son with her. She's learned to be a schemer at this point and works her way through the years to succession for her son (not without some assassination to ease things I suppose) that after some point is actually believed to be the true father.
Well I never said it would work,and I actually presumed it would turn out with the French evicted,probably after 10-20 years.
 
Whelp, Here's one more thing to try and do in the Timeline I'm prepping for.
Man this list is getting pretty long....
 

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There are actually some fun ways to try this out, China is not too opposed to having foreigners become emperors of China should they adopt the culture, it has happened a great many times in the past. Whether or not they'll accept someone white is a bit of a problem, but having a third generation Habsburg inside of China with a chinese noble family as a mother and a grandmother could provide a good jump start for acceptance. It might be better if it occurs through coup over being conquered as an appendage of a larger empire. It would be better if the Habsburg states "I am the Chinese Emperor of China, the Middle Kingdom" rather than "I am an Austro-Spanish Prince who has jurisdiction over New Vienna."
 
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