Sinicization of India, Central Asia, Persia and Arabia

What if similiar to Japan and Tibet , Chinese culture and religion/philosophy is adapted in the Middle East and India and Persia prior to the spread of Islam ? How would Persia lool like , if it is influenced in a similiar way as Japan ?
 
The term is to sinicize by the way.

Do you mean by conquering India and Persia or via heavier cultural pressure in other methods such as missionaries? How the culture is spread makes a big difference (top down/bottom up)
 

scholar

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China was a center of civilization, it radiated outward in a region that lacked strong institutions and a [written] language, resulting in their evolution being one of syncretism giving the entire region a decidedly Chinese flavor. Where these peripheral regions met other peripheral regions of a center of civilization the culture became more blended, such as in Southeast Asia and Central Asia. If you want one center of civilization to overpower another it requires conquest. Hellenism becoming a veneer for the entire Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian world can be blamed on a mixture of Alexander and colonialism. The Middle Eastern cultural center spread through the Arabic conquests, and thus a conversion of Hellenistic civilization, restored Persian civilization, and Roman civilization was brought via the sword and a period of time. In order to make India and the Middle East into a Chinese flavored region, you need those regions to be conquered by them. This is possible, but it may be more of a European flavor reminiscent of late imperialism, as it is likely that this would be a later development. While Chinese civilization could be exported West and South into these regions, the requirements become increasingly convoluted. Such expansions are usually driven by population pressures, but China tended to collapse under population pressures rather than export itself. It might be possible to make it a more cultural exportation, but we do not really have peaceful conversion to a fundamentally different cultural setting without the sword being involved.
 
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PhilippeO

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The problem is Persian/Zoroastrian culture is vibrant enough to resist many other culture (Buddhism, Christianity, Manicheanism). sure religion have spread to Persia/Arabia/Central Asia, but domination by Persian culture is strong enough that they remain minority faith and persian culture dominant.
so Parthian/Sassanian Empire should be prevented, collapse of Persian empire/culture after Alexander might work, with Seleucid concentrate in Syria, Chinese culture (under Han? or stronger Jin?) might dominate Central Asia and Persia.

India is also problematic. Hinduism is vibrant enough to re-absorb Buddhism and Jainism, in fact pre-600s, its Indian Buddhism who spread to China. This will mean China will need more 'advanced' religion (more organised and missionary Taoism/HeavenWorship) BEFORE Buddhism spreading to China. This is difficult, OTL its spread of Buddhism in interregnum between Han and Tang who create impetus for development in Taoism.
 
Ignoring the POD, this happened under the Yuan, the groundwork set up by Genghis, Ogodei and Mongke and eventually delivered upon by the sinophile Kublai. Have Ogodei carry on his intended path of conquering India over Europe and if a Kublai equivalent comes about, all is hunky dory.


Before the POD this is more challenging though. Up untill Buddhism's arrival, chinese cultural exports had a similar problem to Persian/Iranian Zoroastrianism in being so culturally specific that they had a hard time extending out to cultures far removed from their own. Wu-Wei for instance is a bloody hard concept to wrap your head around unless you already have something to go off.
 
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