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 Beiyang Government, more specifically the Beiyang Government as the Empire of China formed and lead by former top dog in the Qing military before the 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution that toppled the Qing and made the Beiyang Government, in the form of the First Republic of China that ruled over the eighteen provinces of Han after the Xinhai Revolution, the government of China after the Qing's fall and rising star in the Beiyang Government after the Xinhai Revolution who subsequently became the first Republic of China's first Great President, Yuan Shikai in 1915, with Shikai leading the Empire of China as its first and only Emperor under the combined regal and era name Hongxian before dissolving the Empire of China sometime before his death in 1916, [the Empire of China] is [the Empire of China] restored as the government of the eighteen provinces of Han in 1991, albiet with the descendants of the Ming dynasty's reigning imperial family, the Imperial House of Zhu, acting as the Empire of China's reigning imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants being formally enthroned as the modern day current reigning imperial family of China after 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 [Nationalist China] to both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after [Nationalist China] losing the Chinese Civil War, [the CCP-ruled People's Republic of China in mainland China] and Nationalist China now in exile on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands both simultaneously collapse after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, with the PRC falling due to Western powers no longer seeing the need to support it against the Soviet backed Nationalist China and the Soviets and Nationalist China collapsing due to the end of Soviet aid and rising Taiwanese nationalist, Taiwanese independence and Taiwanese sovereignty groups in both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands 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 managing to restore the post-1661, pre-1683 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 reigning Japanese imperial family, the supposedly Shinto-descended Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty, the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty as the government [the Royal House of Koxinga/Zheng dynasty-ruled Tungning Kingdom] of both Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after the fall of Nationalist China 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.