WI: Puyi's restoration in 1917 was successful?

As the thread title says. Alternately, the change could be that Puyi never abdicates.

Thoughts? Ideas?
 
How do you expect that to happen? OTL everyone was against the Qing-restauration, not even Zhang Zuolin supported it. I personaly don't think there is any possibility to get Emperror Puyi on to rule China with a POD after 1911.
 
Ok - if restoration is very unlikely, then we can have Puyi never abdicate... So a POD before 1911...
 
Even if it is successful, I can't imagine him having anymore power then Japan's emperor or the Pope. To assert that he is reaffirmed to the throne would require a more popular "Imperial Edict of the Abdication of the Qing Emperor" in 1912; the Republic of China, let us say, leave's the decleration as is. Beijing (The Forbbiden City) will become the permenant capital and Puyi's residence until 1937, when Japan invaded China begining the Second Sino-Japanese War. He would eventualy move to Nanjing, where he would continue to persist until negotiating the surrender of the city after demans for 'complete capulation with 24 hours or annihilation'. Not all of this, most of it probally, is historically accurate - but there is no possibility of a revived dynasty under Puyi's rule.
 
You'll need a POD back in the 1850s at least. Even then I'm not sure if you can keep the Qing Dynasty alive longer than it did OTL. The Chinese during the era hated them a lot.

Marc A
 

Wolfpaw

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Since one of the key points of Chinese Revolution was to overthrow the Manchu Qing dynasty and restore Chinese rule, Puyi won't be kept on unless that whole thing is quashed.
 
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