Write a realistic, plausible alternate history scenario in the form of a history book chapter completely set in the world of the alternate history secenario with absolutely no references to real life, OTL or that this is even an alternate history timeline at all, in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed] having a bicameral national legislature divided into a Senate and House of Representatives known as the National Assembly Beiyang Government ruling over the sixteen provinces of Han in the China region excluding the Cantonese dominated Guangdong and Guangxi, which came under the rule of the Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China sometime in 1914, [the Beiyang Government ruling over the sixteen provinces of Han] since the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution that toppled the Great Qing Empire and subsequently made the Beiyang Government the government of the 16 provinces of Han after the Qing collapse as the short-lived Empire of China founded and lead by Yuan Shikai from 12 December 1915-22 March 1916 before his death sometime in 1916, [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China] is [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China] restored [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China] as the government [the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China] of the sixteen provinces of Han, excluding Guangdong and Guangxi after the Ming restorationist romanticist millerian, adhering to Militant self-defense and tax resistance, heterodox traditional Chinese folk religion in addition to Ming restorationist romanticist monarchism, rural secret society and folk religious sect based in Northern Han China's provinces of Henan, Shandong, Hebei, the Yellow Sand Society, [the Yellow Sand Society] successfully pulls off a putsch in 1980 against the CCP-ruled People's Republic of China ruling over the mainland China region since [when the PRC has been ruling over the mainland China] the CCP-ruled Chinese Soviet Republic won the 1947-1989 Chinese Civil War against the Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China which [Nationalist China after losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Soviet Republic] was [Nationalist China] promptly exiled to both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after [Nationalist China] losing the Chinese Civil War, [the Yellow Sand Society successfully pulling off a putsch against the PRC in 1980] restoring the  post-1851, pre-1864 theocratic absolute royal Christian monarchy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as the government of the sixteen provinces of Han, albiet now controlled by the Yellow Sand Society as a regency for the restoration of the Ming as the government of the provinces of Han instead of the descendants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's founding leader and first royal monarch of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Hakka would-be civil sevant turned charismatic self-proclaimed Heavenly King appointed by God,  that is, a king appointed directly by heaven inside a directly appointed heavenly kingdom, Hong Xiuquan or his [Xiuquan's] descendants reclaiming their [Xiuquan's] position as Heavenly Kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with China's capital being moved back to the Ming and Nationalist China-era capital of Nanking even as Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria all [Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria] broke away from Han China after the Yellow Sand Society's putsch against the PRC and became and [Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria ] subsequently [Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria ] remained [Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria] sovereign, independent nation-states [Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guangdong, Tibet, East Turkestan and Yunnan along with Manchuria ] from the rest of the 20th century into the 21th century and beyond, even though the remnants and descendants of the leaders of the Beiyang Government faction/Chinese military junta/Chinese warlord clique of the Anhui Clique, [the Anhui Clique's remnants and descendants] the remnants and descendants of the leaders of the Anhui Clique's political wing,  [the Anhui Clique's political wing] the political organization in Beiyang Government-ruled Han China that was a collective of senators, representatives and government bureaucrats who had their own party roles and positions which mirrored that of the Beiyang Government, with its official goal being to generate public policy, both foreign and internal, with their well-known foreign policies was the club's diplomacy with Japan, overall, the club's policy to Japan was largely friendly, but with the knowledge that Japan did not have the best interests of both China and the Beiyang Government in mind, not having an official ideology but frequently making use of socialist rhetoric and watered down policies, such as the passing of progressive laws making Sunday a holiday, creating safety regulations for factories and compulsory pensions for workers, [the Anhui Clique's political wing] the Anfu Club, [the remnants and descendants of the Anfu Club] the remnants and descendants of the leaders of the Anhui Clique's financial wing, [the Anhui Clique's financial wing] the powerful interest group of politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, businessmen, engineers, and labour unionists in the Beiyang Government, running on the Beiyang Government's National Assembly on a platform of modernization, training programs and better working conditions for its rail workers, even supporting their strikes against local warlords, [the Anhui Clique's financial wing] the Communications Clique, along with the remnants and descendants of the leaders of the constitionalist, statist, Han monarchist, Han nationalist, Chinese nationalist, ultranationalist and militarist, having a policy of nationalism with strong central government, liberty through the rule of law, and peaceful foreign policy of the Research Clique, [the Research Clique's remnants and descendants] while the renmants and descendants of the  Communications Clique manage to gather enough influence among the still-existing PLA, People's Armed Police, People's Police and National People's Congress to transform the restored Taiping Heavenly Kingdom created by the Yellow Sand Society as the government of China immediately after the successful putsch of the Yellow Sand Society against the PRC in 1980 into a restored Beiyang Government as a restored Empire of China, albiet with the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning Imperial family, the Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu, now acting as the Empire of China's reigning Imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants being formally enthroned as the current modern-day reigning imperial family of China to appease both the Yellow Sand Society and the Triads, which had started off as Ming monarchist and Ming restorationist groups before becoming organized crime syndicates to support their Ming monarchist and Ming restorationist ideals, goals and ideologies.

After the succesful putsch launched by the Yellow Sand Society against the PRC in 1980 that lead to the restoration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as the government of the sixteen provinces of Han, albiet ruled by the Yellow Sand Society as a regency for the restoration of Ming instead of Xiuquan's descendants becoming Heavenly Kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once more before the descendants and remnants of the Anhui Clique, Anhui Club, Communications Clique and Research Clique took over this restored Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and transformed it into a restored Beiyang Government as a restored version of the Empire of China, albiet ruled by the descendants of the Imperial House of Zhu as its reigning imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants, Nationalist China reclaims its post-1914, pre-1947 strongholds of Guangdong and Guangxi from Taiwan and the Pengu Islands in a series of military and diplomatic operations aided by joint US-Soviet military and diplomatic aid, but fail to reach any further as it [Nationalist China] along with the Kuomingtang are jointly kicked off both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands by Taiwanese nationalist, Taiwanese independence and Taiwanese liberation groups formed by the majority group of Taiwan and the Pengu Island's population, the Taiwanese sub-branch of  the Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, and/or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China, the Hoklo, the Taiwanese Hoklo along with Taiwanese indigenous tribes suppressed by the Kuomingtang and Nationalist China. 

Due to the Americans not wanting the Soviets to have Taiwan and the Pengu Islands as a result of Nationalist China being a Soviet satellite, the Americans reluctantly return Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Japan, which [Japan itself] is [Japan itself] still [Japan itself] under the military feudal governance of the side branch of the reigning Japanese imperial family, the supposedly Shinto pantheon-descended, Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty that was also a Japanese samurai clan and Japanese noble clan of the Tokugawa clan-ruled feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa shogunate despite [Japan itself] simultaneously [Japan itself] being [what Japan is] a constitutional parliamentary democratic imperial royal monarchy [Japan itself] ruled by the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato as its [Japan's itself's reigning imperial family [the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato] under the one party rule of the conservative, Japanese nationalist, right wing Liberal Democratic Party since 1955 like its [Japan's itself's] real life counterpart but [Japan itself] still had the Meiji Restoration of 1868 like in real life, although this timeline's version of the Meiji Restoration was [this timeline's version of the Meiji Restoration] a compromise between pro democracy progressive supporters of the reigning Japanese imperial family [the main branch of the Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty], and the Conservative nobles and samurai supporting the Tokugawa clan and the feudal system of government of the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in the clan heads of the main branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato reigning over Japan as Japanese Emperors and Empresses respectively regaining executive power over the Japanese government and becoming the combined Japanese heads of state and heads of the Japanese armed forces like in real life, although the heads of the Tokugawa clan reigning over Japan as shoguns have their roles evolve into a rough combination of that of the European constutional royal monarchs and the Germanic Reichskanzlers as as a result of and after the Meiji Restoration in this timeline, instead of the abolishment of the Tokugawa shogunate during, via and after ghe Meiji Restoration like in real life although the industrial, economic, military, technological and political development that occurred in Japan itself after the Meiji Restoration still occurs along with Imperial Japan succeeding the Tokugawa shogunate as the government of Japan through and after the Meiji Reestoration  like in real life and the history of Japan after the Meiji Restoration until its defeat in WW2 in 1947 remains unchanged in this timeline, with the only difference is that Japan itself is allowed to keep its imperial court and imperial shogunate system of government intact after WW2, which [this timeline's version of Japan's imperial court and this timeline's version of Japan's imperial shogunate system of government] coexisting alongside and being intermingled with the post-WW2 system of democratic government in Japan in this timeline, and [Japan itself] still [Japan itself] experiences economic, industrial, military, technological boom starting in the 1950s that leads to it [Japan itself] becoming a economic, industrial and military power even after its defeat in WW2 like in real life, which [Japan's post war ascendancy into a major East Asian and world power in this timeline] continues uninterrupted to the rest of the 20th century into the 21th century and beyond, with no Lost Decade or Japanese economic crash to stop it like in real life, [Japan having Taiwan and the Pengu Islands returned to it after Nationalist China reclaims Guangdong and Guangxi after the PRC's collapse but is kicked off both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] in a repeat of the return of Okinawa to Japan itself by the US in 1972 in both real life and in this timeline.


The rump kingdom/satellite state/tributary state of the Ming dynasty based in southwestern Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Tungning Kingdom and the Tungning Kingdom's reigning royal family, the partially Han Chinese sinciced side branch of the Imperial House of Great Yamato, the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty is restored to power in Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after both [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] simultaneously  [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] return to Japan, albiet as the once again Japanese controlled Taiwanese local government. 

The Gwangju Uprising of 1980 in the unitary presidential republic under an authoritarian military dictatorship of the Fourth Republic of Korea in South Korea spreads to the Soviet satellite state of the Korean nationalist, Korean imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist Workers' Party of Korea-ruled , adhering to the ideology of a self-reliant state which independently determines its political, economic, and military affairs known as Juche, Kim-family ruled unitary one-party socialist republic under a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in North Korea and [the Gwangju Uprising] topples both post-WW2 Korean regimes [the DPRK and the ROK] in this timeline, with the unitary parliamentary socialist republic of the People's Republic of Korea founded and lead by Lyuh Woon-hyung in 1945 before its [the Korean People's Republic's] subsequent invasion and division into the DPRK in North Korea and the ROK in South Korea by the USSR and USA respectively, [the Korean People's Republic] being the Korean People's Republic] subsequently restored the Korean People's Republic] as the government [the People's Republic of Korea] of a united Korean peninsula in the aftermath of the simulataneous fall of both the DPRK in North Korea and the ROK in South Korea to the Gwangju Uprising in this timeline.

Fearing the power of a united, strong Korea and not wanting to be dragged before the Hague for war crimes and violation of international law as a result of the division of the Korean peninsula, the USA eventually convinces the USSR to jointly return the entire Korean peninsula to Japan on the basis that the Korean People's Republic never formally declares independence from Japan upon its formation and thus the division of the Korean People's Republic in 1945 by the US and USSR had no legitimate basis. 
After the joint return of the entire Korean peninsula to Japan by the USA and USSR, the restored Korean People's Republic remains the local government and administration of the now once again Japanese controlled Korean peninsula. 

To maintain some semblance of legitimacy among both the Russian people and the captive nations the USSR occupies, the USSR also returns the entire Sakhalin Island along with the Kurils to the Japanese. 


The CCP is soon overthrown in its traditional strong hold of Manchuria and the Manchuria-based Beiyang Government faction that was also a Chinese warlord clique/Chinese bandit clique/Chinese military junta of the Fengtian Clique is [the Fengtian Clique] subsequently [the Fengtian Clique] restored [the Fengtian Clique] to power as the government of Manchuria, albiet with the descendants of the Qing Empire's reigning Imperial family, the Manchu House of Aisin-Gioro in charge of the restored Fengtian Clique instead of the eldest son of the Fengtian Clique's last military dictator and warlord of Manchuria, the infamous "Young Marshal" Zhang Xueliang, [Xueliang's eldest son] the now 59 year old, Zhang Lüxun, [Lüxun] taking up his [Lüxun's] still-alive father's [Lüxun's] position as combined warlord of Manchuria and military dictator of the Fengtian Clique or Xueliang returning to Manchuria to reclaim his positions of combined warlord of Manchuria and Generalissmo of the Fengtian Clique, with the descendants of the Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro who would have become Emperors of the Qing Empire had the Qing not fallen to the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution instead becoming the combined warlords of Manchuria and military dictators of the Fengtian Clique after its restoration in Manchuria in place of the Zhang family. 

The Manchu Qing Imperial court is hastily reconstructed in Manchuria after the Fengtian Clique's restoration as the government of Manchuria after the PRC's collapse and then becomes the defacto government of the Fengtian Clique after the latter's restoration as the government of Manchuria.

The return of the Fengtian Clique, although ruled by a reconstituted Qing Imperial court and the Aisin-Gioro descendants instead of the Zhang family, is covertly aided by Japan, who wishes to see its pre-1945 influence over Manchuria restored.

The restored Fengtian Clique ruled by the reconstituted Qing Imperial court becomes known as "North China" or simply Manchuria by Westerners while The restored Empire of China ruled by the Zhu descendants as its reigning Imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants in Han China becomes known as South China or simply the Chinese Empire to Westerners. 

Shikai and later on Mao Zedong are portrayed as regents with the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China and the PRC simply being portrayed as regency states for the restoration of the Ming in Han China in the history books of the restored Ming dynasty in Han China.

In keeping with the CCP's anti Soviet and anti-Bolshevik Han nationalist stance Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomingtang are portrayed as reactionary ursurpers backed by Josef Stalin who wanted to destroy the legitimate Chinese government and unite all the Qing Imperial territories under a Cantonese expansionist, Cantonese supremacist Stalinist dictatoral regime which would be backed by Soviet and American imperialism. 






Chiang family loyalists among the Nationalist Chinese armed forces, intelligence services and government flee Taiwan and the Pengu Islands and later on Han China to Indochina, where they help topple the Vietnamese Communist Party-ruled Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Vietnam, help Laotian royalists defeat the Communist Laotian People's Revolutionary Party-ruled communist Laotian People's Democratic Republic, restoring the Kingdom of Laos and the Kingdom of Laos' reigning royal family, the Lao Khun Lo dynasty, to power in Laosunknowingly wiping out the renmants of the Mao backed Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, preparing for an attack on the China region, starting by restoring the Republic of Vietnam in South Vietnam as the government of all of Vietnam after the fall of the Vietnamese communist government. 

But Vietnamese Nationalists, monarchists and Democrats, with the help of US POWs still trapped in Vietnam and Soviet KGB and military advisors turned to the side of the restored Ming dynasty in Han China overthrow the restored Republic of Vietnam or rather restore the Empire of Vietnam and the Empire of Vietnam's reigning imperial family, the Imperial House of Ngyuen/Ngyuen dynasty to power in Vietnam through the restored Republic of Vietnam.