I agree with the other critics here. The poster needs a lot more detail or is seriously out to lunch. Bringing back ancient memories in history is normally the realm of armchair academics, most unlike a budding Cambridge Lawyer named 'Harry' Lee who had to learn Chinese (written language) in his 30's I recall from his autobiography.
In the 1950-1980's the Taiwan Chaing regime encouraged arm chair academics pontificating about return to Han or Tang or whatever as harmless spinning of wheels, whereas the real power was grist in an iron fist or perhaps cozy relationships with the bamboo union (maifia). Later president Hakka/Taiwanese Lee Dung Wei (sp) was an academic poetry guy, probably not an armchair historian, but deeply in those circles. So deeply reportedly (the books are all in Chinese and above my level) that every single friend and associate either was imprisoned in Green Island torture hotel, under house arrest for many years, or was killed outright. Yet he was on a fast track to KMT elected positions. Peccaries could hypothetically pilot 747s, so maybe it was all a coincidence?
Suffice to say, one had to live by your wits all over Chinese diaspora during Harry's (you're the best Englishman east of the Suez, on British manager said in his younger years) time, not a good period for academics in hazy Ozymandias dreams. This is the reason for the picture of those turbulent days which needs few captions. Hard headed people survived. Those who had grand dreams usually were gulled to something like returning to the PRC, as hundreds of thousands apparently were over 15 years, all so Chicoms could pick though for maybe 1,000 to start up the nuclear bomb industry from scratch. The really unwanted others were under house arrest at best. Nice pontificating.
Instead of pontificating (or trolling, hard to tell here) how about Pontianak? More specifically, The Lanfang Republic, 1777- 1884:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanfang_Republic , which one of Harry Lee's ancestors was a President, I recall. All of these people heading those semi-autonomous groups were extremely practical insofar as understanding the knife edge on which they lived in, kowtowing to the local Sultans, which on the whole were very considerate in Pontianak. The real world is far more broad than most people here guess, and that a pragmatic personage of President Lee's character would do anything so outrageous as imagine a wonderful time in the past and aim for that direction is very strange. Suharto or Prince Sihanouk, yes, Lee, no.
I also encourage you to spend more time in the off topic page, where subjects like this recently uncovered document could be discussed in detail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4cjPHjFz5g&feature=related
Better yet, do it in 6 days, just after the 31st, and talk about what that astronaut was exactly saying!! It is beyond me.