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  1. If Timur lived longer, "he would undoubtedly have reestablished Turko-Mongol rule" over China. What?

    Is he saying Timur would only have conquered North China, possibly leaving South China to be ruled by a rump-Ming based in Nanjing?

  2. Tang victory at the Battle of Talas 751?

    I've always been of the opinion that a Tang victory at Talas changes little unless the Tang avoid the worst of the An Lushan rebellion. It was the An Lushan rebellion, which shattered Chinese unity and nearly overthrew the Tang, that weakened China to the point that it was no longer capable of...

  3. Largest Possible China?

    The Sinicized Xianbei had great power, but they didn't monopolize it during the Tang (the only relevant dynasty because none of the other dynasties you mention had a long period of strength even comparable to the Tang). If you look at the early leadership of the Tang, there are officials with...

  4. Largest Possible China?

    Upon closer inspection, I interpreted your post incorrectly. But I think my point still stands. The Tang were already essentially Chinese even before they became rulers of China. On the other hand, the Mongols will need to start assimilating as soon as they start conquering. We already saw...

  5. Politics in Liaotopia

    I'm skeptical that a regional military commander like Mao Wenlong could take power when sandwiched between the Shun and the Qing, but I'll give this timeline a few more posts first. The same applies to how such a state develops in Manchuria, and how it would interact with what's left of China...

  6. Largest Possible China?

    I would disagree about the Tang and Yuan. The Tang ruling house was almost certainly of foreign origin at one point, but by the time the Tang was founded, the House of Li had mostly adopted Chinese customs, the Chinese language and claimed Chinese descent. It was a source of resentment for the...

  7. Song Dynasty flees to Japan

    By 1279, Japan had spent five years building up its defenses for a possible Mongol invasion. If the Song Dynasty hopes to invade Japan in an effort to escape the Mongols, they run the very high risk of being defeated. Historically, in 1281, the Japanese defeated a Mongol invasion that was much...

  8. Classical Chinese Pronunciation?

    Vixagoras stated earlier "This does mean however that the romanized orthography of Chinese names in my timeline is going to look... weird" If that's not a statement that OP intends to use reconstructions of Old/Middle Chinese for Chinese names in lieu of pinyin, then what is it saying, exactly...

  9. Classical Chinese Pronunciation?

    My post might have been misinterpreted. I was writing in response to the idea of using Baxter-Sagart for romanization instead of pinyin. I did not mean to say that historical reconstruction of Chinese languages was unnecessary. Language is of course instrumental to human existence, and the study...

  10. Classical Chinese Pronunciation?

    Here's the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction, which I remember using at one point. I have no idea if their approach is any better than other approach, so I don't vouch for their accuracy or method: link I'm not sure why you would need the original pronunciations. Many more people understand Pinyin...

  11. Could the Jin and/or Song have defeated the Mongols?

    Actually, for about a month in 1129, two military officers, Miao Fu (苗傅) and Liu Zhengyan (劉正彥) did in fact depose the Song Emperor Gaozong, who temporarily abdicated. None of the Song Dynasty generals were particularly supportive of the coup, probably because the coup attempt came at the worst...

  12. WI: No Mandate of Heaven

    The Mandate of Heaven concept is so old, dating back to around 1000 BCE, that the butterfly effect would remove the Mongols and Huns from history (and the only time the Huns invaded China was in the movie Mulan, as the connection between the European Huns and the Chinese nomadic invaders is...

  13. Hideoyoshi invades Korea with European style Galleons

    I'm not sure that the Hideyoshi's issues were just the ships. It wasn't just that the Japanese ships were smaller and less sturdy (which they were), it's also that Korea had more powerful and longer-ranged cannons as well. During the Imjin War, the dominant Japanese tactic was focused on...

  14. AHC Preserve Tang borders

    I believe those are the circuits (dao 道) established during the Zhenguan era which were either purely civil administrations or only geographical designations. The term military governors (jiedushi 節度使) refers to the governors who combined civil and military functions within those circuits...

  15. AHC Preserve Tang borders

    At the time of the An Lushan rebellion, the ten jiedushi districts and their commanders were: Longyou and Hexi: Geshu Han Pinglu, Fanyang, and Hedong: An Lushan Shuofang (Beiting? Anxi?): An Sishun Jiannan: Yang Guozhong (through a local deputy) Lingnan: technically not headed by a...

  16. AHC Preserve Tang borders

    But the first military governors largely were established along the periphery, in areas either under tenuous Chinese control or in the Chinese cities closest to the borders. It wasn't until after the An Lushan rebellion that the military governors were established in the interior itself. An...

  17. The Byzantine Republic (Not AH, as Such)

    With the caveat that I haven't read Kaldellis' book (but have looked at the thread a few months back about this book as well as the outside article linked in that thread), I want to criticize his argument that the Byzantine Empire was a republic because it was not some "Oriental despotism,"...

  18. The Byzantine Republic (Not AH, as Such)

    I don't know if the book you mention uses the term "Oriental despotism" (and I haven't researched that concept very well) but many of the concepts you mentioned describe China too: the Emperor as a servant of the country (indeed, as the person responsible for the well-being of the universe), the...

  19. Could balance of power be viable in China

    I think that works as a temporary solution, but how permanent can this be in the South? The Song would control basically all Northern China except for the Northern Han and the Sixteen Prefectures. The only way Southern China holds out is if the rival Southern Chinese states, the Ten Kingdoms...

  20. WI China ruled by a khan (after Yuan)

    I think there's a considerable difference between the Mongol and Manchu conquests. For the Mongols, it wasn't until Kublai in 1271 that the Khanate declared itself the Yuan, after having conquered and ruling most of China for several decades. The Manchus on the other hand created their...
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