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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?
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