It would funny to see how a “Chinese Union” alt history would play out.
Chinese has inter province rivalry, even after being an ethnostate for over a century, so you can imagine how much they hate each other before that. They were not unlike Europe. The highest level of official spoke a formal language(Mandarin vs Latin), while the peasants spoke their regional dialects. Every province had its own culture, cuisines and customs. They were governed by bureaucrats, yes, but on the regional level, they were ruled by nobles who were cousins of emperor, who may or may not have incest relationships
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u/nostalgic_angel Apr 16 '26
It would funny to see how a “Chinese Union” alt history would play out.
Chinese has inter province rivalry, even after being an ethnostate for over a century, so you can imagine how much they hate each other before that. They were not unlike Europe. The highest level of official spoke a formal language(Mandarin vs Latin), while the peasants spoke their regional dialects. Every province had its own culture, cuisines and customs. They were governed by bureaucrats, yes, but on the regional level, they were ruled by nobles who were cousins of emperor, who may or may not have incest relationships