ITPH: Inter Han Period

So does anyone here know about the interim period between the two Han dynasties (9 CE to 27 CE)? Particularly the war period following the fall of Wang Mang (23 CE)? Are there any good potential PoDs in this time that would lead significantly change Chinese national culture and history over the next two centuries? As an example, could the Lulin or Chimei (Red Eyebrows) hold onto power; and even if they could, would any of these factions doing so look so different from OTL's Eastern Han Dynasty?

Is there potential here?

CONSOLIDATE: Some potential ideas:
  • Mother Lu lives a few more years (doesn't die 18 CE)
  • Emperor Genshi sucessfully restores the dynasty; the Red Eyebrows don't rebel a second time
  • the Red Eyebrows sucessfully install their puppet emperor
 
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Japhy

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So what on earth is ITPH stand for?

Those potential PoDs do strike me as the best available options especially if you're not well read on the subject. That said an imperial restoration would inevitably have been followed by another revolt due to the instabilities created by the Han. There's not really a clear off-switch for what followed, but you can obviously take one or two options that there's a bit more writing about and go with it. Odds are any dynasty you get in at that point is going to be exceptionally short lived.
 
Those potential PoDs do strike me as the best available options especially if you're not well read on the subject.
Any recommendations for researching this particular period?
That said an imperial restoration would inevitably have been followed by another revolt due to the instabilities created by the Han... Odds are any dynasty you get in at that point is going to be exceptionally short lived.
Could you elaborate on this? After all, Guangwu consolidated power in 27 CE, just a few years after Gengshi overthrew Wang Mang, and he managed to hold power for thirty years and found the Later Han Dynasty.
 

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So what on earth is ITPH stand for?

Those potential PoDs do strike me as the best available options especially if you're not well read on the subject. That said an imperial restoration would inevitably have been followed by another revolt due to the instabilities created by the Han. There's not really a clear off-switch for what followed, but you can obviously take one or two options that there's a bit more writing about and go with it. Odds are any dynasty you get in at that point is going to be exceptionally short lived.

IMO IIPT THD WNL ALA THD IOTL
 
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