AHC: Permanently divided China

The challenge here is, with a PoD after 1900, to have what is today, the PRC, the ROC/Taiwan and generally the entirety of China permanently divided(to this day at least) into as many stars as possible; basically, balkanize China. Bonus points if most of the resulting states are small population wise and fairly developed, resembling South Korea or other “Asian Tigers”.
 
Cantonese Empire sounds cool. Actually, it kinda sounds like a Chinese restaurant. Now I’m hungry.

In all seriousness, a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

all that’s needed is for the cantonese to develop their own national identity, the way the Dutch or Portuguese did in medieval Europe.
 
Hmm...

Yea, national identities would work. Having something like a post-WW1 Ottoman partition with states that eventually gain independence would fracture mainland China, not to mention the outer areas the PRC already has resistance in.
 
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