Expression of interest: Tumblr written in a TL where Song China industrialized

For a while I've had an idea for a TL in which Genghis Khan died before he could unify the Mongol states; with no Mongol Empire, the Southern Song and the Abbasid Caliphate kept developing, and industrialized in the 14th and 15th centuries.

I am not going to write it down in too many details (nor do I want nitpicks of the POD, please). What I am considering doing is starting a Tumblr written by a Chinese sociologist in 1614 AD, when the tech level in China is about on a par with OTL's Europe's 2014, about the maligned but now rising culture of the Far West, i.e. Europe.

The Far West, you see, has a more traditional culture, unlike China or Arabia. It has its own unique religion, which is older than Islam and which may have been the basis for Islam. It has a long, proud history of philosophy in the region of Greece and of warfare in the region of Italy, and even had queens regnant. The hip youth of Hangzhou, Kaifeng, Xi'an, and Guangzhou are showing how multicultural they are by eating out at authentic immigrant restaurants serving food based on the Four Humors and by getting tattoos of Western heraldry, but true appreciation of the traditions of the Far West requires more detailed study, as well as understanding of the ubiquity of anti-Western racism. You can't just say you appreciate their traditions and then ignore how populist politicians say European immigrants work for low wages and take jobs from Chinese workers.

That sort of thing.

If I start such a Tumblr, will people here be interested in reading it?
 
You can count me in! It can be a very nice exercise of the Verfremdungeffekt, the estrangement of the reader from the characters of the story proposed by Brecht. In short it would be nice to see western culture "from the outside" and reflect on our own cultural biases. Maybe it would go better in the writers' forum? You know, to avoid people discussing endlessly the plausibility of your alternate world.
 
Cool, very intriguing.

Is TTL Europe like today's Asia, a land where booming economies struggle to coexist with traditional cultures? Or is it like today's Middle East, which is wracked by religious and sectarian warfare and is unable to progress?
 
Depends on the country! The better-off parts are like the poor-but-stable parts of Asia, like India or Vietnam. The worse-off are not so stable.
 
Surely there are islands of wealth and stability within Europe, like OTL Hong Kong, Singapore, or Dubai. These cities would be located in places which IOTL are unimportant or quiet. Maybe one in the Aegean Sea, one in Brittany, one in the Baltic Sea will be good.

Europe will be significantly more populated than IOTL due to the lack of family planning, *and* the absence of America as a destination for excess population.

I think the patronizing description of Christianity is not warranted. IOTL large Christian communities had emerged as far back as the Tang Dynasty. The religion would be seen as mysterious, even scary (one where you celebrate the god by literally eating its flesh and drinking its blood?!?!). But it will be very familiar to the reasonably educated, and maybe it will become fashionable among celebrities, the elite, etc. Just like Buddhism in the west today.
 
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