raharris1973
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What if the Qing Dynasty Chinese Empire (along with its nearby tributary Kingdom of Korea), was ISOT from early 1888, back 375 years to 1513 AD?
This is the big green territory in East Asia I am talking about:
Additionally, all British, Europeans, Japanese, and American people present disappear from the ISOTed region, transferred to another timeline and *not* traveling back in time with the 1888 version of China and Korea. This extends to anyone with a British, European, Japanese or American parent in China or Korea. But all British and European built property, machinery, infrastructure, and ships remain in place. Meanwhile, all members of 1888's worldwide Chinese diaspora are transported back to the territory of China, even second and third generation overseas Chinese. Same with any small number of expat Koreans there might have been.
The wider world of 1513 looks like this, except China occupies the larger geographic 'footprint' of the 1888 Qing Dynasty on the map- from Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet to Taiwan, that was bigger than the geographic footprint of downtime 1513 Ming China.
How do the Chinese deal with their new, more primitive, world environment, where they have access to the most advanced technology in the world, future history, and the maps and major languages of the world that no one else has?
How do the Chinese deal with the arrival of the rather obnoxious and piratical Portuguese on their southern shores, their closest competitors in terms of geographic knowledge and transport technology in the world of 1513, when the latter start showing up at China's southern shores?
This is the big green territory in East Asia I am talking about:
Additionally, all British, Europeans, Japanese, and American people present disappear from the ISOTed region, transferred to another timeline and *not* traveling back in time with the 1888 version of China and Korea. This extends to anyone with a British, European, Japanese or American parent in China or Korea. But all British and European built property, machinery, infrastructure, and ships remain in place. Meanwhile, all members of 1888's worldwide Chinese diaspora are transported back to the territory of China, even second and third generation overseas Chinese. Same with any small number of expat Koreans there might have been.
The wider world of 1513 looks like this, except China occupies the larger geographic 'footprint' of the 1888 Qing Dynasty on the map- from Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet to Taiwan, that was bigger than the geographic footprint of downtime 1513 Ming China.
How do the Chinese deal with their new, more primitive, world environment, where they have access to the most advanced technology in the world, future history, and the maps and major languages of the world that no one else has?
How do the Chinese deal with the arrival of the rather obnoxious and piratical Portuguese on their southern shores, their closest competitors in terms of geographic knowledge and transport technology in the world of 1513, when the latter start showing up at China's southern shores?
