WI:An earlier Chinese colonization of Taiwan?

I just came across readings that indicated that during the Three Kingdoms period,Sun Quan tried to conquer what might be Taiwan,but the attempt failed for reasons unknown,so suppose it succeeded,what would happen?
 
Depends. There`s three centuries of a fractured China ahead; a conquest of Taiwan might be counterbalanced by its forming a separate polity, whose degree of Sinicisation could be low.
If contact remains high and the memory is vivid, and Sui or Tang reconquer it in their unification of China, then things might look differently indeed.
 
I would recommend Mosodake's Taiwanese TL as it used an early PoD of Chinese colonization of Taiwan; however, the Chinese, mostly men, intermarried with the lowland Austronesians and propagate a mixed culture that combined Chinese and Austronesian elements.

Currently, I'm thinking of writing a TL where the Chinese colonization of Taiwan would start a couple of centuries earlier than OTL; this time, they came from Putian prefecture in China, settling in OTL Taoyuan and intermarried with Austronesian women as they spread in the island's western region. Thus, Puxian is the lingua franca of Taiwan, instead of Min Nan
 
Well, perhaps we could mix an earlier conquest of Taiwan with a successful long-term conquest of Korea and Sinicization of Dai Viet and maybe even the Philippines to have an expanded Chinese homeland.
 
Well Taiwan likely suffered from the same things that plagued Chinese colonization efforts in the south - malaria, hostile natives, limited farming space, and so on, so unless there was a really strong official push for colonization (which in turn, would probably have required the Chinese court to have an acute understanding that the land was not yet 'theirs'), a Three-Kingdoms-era Taiwanese colony would probably be limited to OTL small settlements and limited administration, to be abandoned as soon as greater pressures starting coming down from the North.
 
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