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I've lurked for an unbelievable amount of time, enjoying timelines while adding none myself. So today, I felt that should change. But first I had to pick something that wasn't done yet and at least somewhat matched what I knew about history. East Asia timelines tend to feature a superpower-Chinese giant, something I think appeals to both Western cliches of the "sleeping giant", and Chinese cliches of victimization and the immutability of "China". That's fun and interesting of course, but it creates a room for something very different. The POD is Chinese, but my biggest goal is to slowly expand the scope of uh...divergence, in an enjoyable way. So here is The Pacific World (the title should mean something very different than what is expected), hopefully a very different timeline.

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"One cannot even walk down the streets of downtown London without on October Seventh without an obligatory Maitreya float attracting attention on the streets. Yet, Ten Seven means so much more in the study of history. Even though the foundation of the Manchu dynasty had been already shaken by rebellion in Northern Szechuan and the endemic corruption that hobbled any response, Ten Seven proved something entirely new. Underneath all of the authority of the state and hundreds of years of traditions, an Emperor and a peasant were no different in one important aspect: they could both bleed and die quite easily."

- Excerpt from Newspaper Column (source: The Guardian), James Lee
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