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Historically, one of the main aspects of Chinese civilization has been how all of China's periods of disunity have ended in some sort of reunification of China, so what scenario could have brought about a permanent division of China after 1 CE where the core region of China breaks up into multiple states akin to Europe in a permanent manner with the varieties of Chinese seen as different languages. Bonus points if you have non-Sinitic peoples be a major cultural and ethnic portion of this China as well.
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