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See if you can get a Nanzhao successor state speaking a Tibeto-Burman language in Yunnan (with or without its own alphabet) surviving to the present day, with a strip of southern China giving it access to the sea. Bonus points if you can give it the Sichuan basin.
It's okay if the Nanzhao nation is a Chinese vassal state at various points in its history.