Challenge: Monarchism makes a comeback in China post-WWII

Just as the title says.

Bonus points if you can make Mao or Chiang or any other such leaders pull a Yuan Shikai and revert to imperial designs.
 
Actually if you take it as an analogy, the Chairman of the Party is actually the Emperor of China. Looking at the power he wields it would seem to be the same as the Emperor. The Party itself is like the imperial family, with the inner circle of folks who might be chairman like princes. Look at it this way this could be considered the "Red" dynasty much like there is a Tang and Ming dynasty.
 
Yeah, and when Chiang fled to Taiwan, he managed to keep the presidency in his family (specifically his son and/or grandson I believe) for half a century.
 
Somehow the idea of the Mandate of Heaven takes root in China again. It might be quite hard to pull of though.

It's taking root again now- the CCP leadership is currently very eager to learn whatever it can from Lee Kuan Yew, who's probably the most prominent Confucian statesman of the late 20th C. Actually, bonus points if you can get Lee Kuan Yew to ascend the Dragon Throne as Son of Heaven at some point.
 

Hendryk

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Actually if you take it as an analogy, the Chairman of the Party is actually the Emperor of China. Looking at the power he wields it would seem to be the same as the Emperor. The Party itself is like the imperial family, with the inner circle of folks who might be chairman like princes. Look at it this way this could be considered the "Red" dynasty much like there is a Tang and Ming dynasty.
Quite--and North Korea provides evidence that a Communist system is somehow compatible with hereditary succession. (Then again an amusing paradox of Communism in general is that, without clearly settled rules of succession, leaders are by default in power for life, and when they pass away the most likely replacements are their immediate relatives).

Any possible people from the latter days of the Chinese Civil War who might have been pro-monarchy?
Not that I'm personally aware of, but I haven't specifically looked into it. The monarchists I've focused on are the ones from the early Republican period.

Actually, bonus points if you can get Lee Kuan Yew to ascend the Dragon Throne as Son of Heaven at some point.
That would be really cool indeed.
 
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