Write an realistic, plausible alternate history scenario set on the world of the alternate history scenario with no references to the real world, OTL, or even to the fact that this is an alternate history scenario after all in the form of a lengthy, descrptive, exposition-filled real documentary history book chapter set in the world of the alternate history scenario, in which the 1868 Meiji Restoration in the Japanese Tokugawa clan-ruled de jure absolute imperial royal monarchy but de facto feudal hereditary military dictatorship of the Tokugawa shogunate that [the Tokugawa shogunate] ruled [the Tokugawa shogunate] over the Japanese Home Islands and Okinawa that [the Meiji Restoration] abolished the rule of the shoguns and the feudal system over Japan and [the Meiji Restoration] lead to the Japanese imperial family, the Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty, [the Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty as a result of the Meiji Restoration] regaining executive control over the Japanese government, [the Meiji Restoration] leading to the development of a democratic parliamentary system in Japanese politics and [the Meiji Restoration] paving the way for the industrial and military development that made Japan into a regional and then a world superpower, [the Meiji Restoration] instead [the Meiji Restoration] leads [the Meiji Restoration] to a compromise between the liberal, social democractic and progressive reformers who support the Japanese imperial family [the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] and the conservative, traditional aristocrats and merchants who support the de-facto Japanese royal family [the Tokugawa clan], with the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty still [the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty] regaining executive control over the Japanese government, but the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan are [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan] not  [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan]  displaced  [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan]  from their [the Tokugawa clan's reigning heads'] role as shoguns [barbarian-killing generalissmos |shoguns|, the hereditary military dictators |shoguns| akin to the absolute monarchs of post-Rennissance Europe who |the shoguns| were the de-facto leaders of Japan during the period of feudal rule under the military dictatorship of the various shogunates of Japan from 1192-1868] but instead [the reigning heads of the Tokugawa clan] becoming more akin to the Reichskanzlers [Realm Chancellors/Imperial Chancelors/Chancelors of the Realm |Reichskanzlers|] of the German Royal House of Hohenzollern-ruled Kingdom of Prussia-dominated German Empire and the Swiss-Austrian Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine-ruled Austria-Hungarian Empire and the constitutional European royal monarchs of the post-Napoleon era. 

The collection of various powers that supported the shogunates and the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s with high prestige and special privileges, the buke [military families |buke|], [the buke] better known [the buke] outside of Japan and East Asia as [the buke's other, more famous name] the samurai, [the buke/samurai] are [the buke/samurai] not [the buke/samurai] abolished along with the powerful Japanese magnates, and feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings despite being subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the emperor, whom the buke/samurai served as well-paid retainers, the daimyō [large private land |daimyō], [the buke/samurai and the daimyō] instead [the buke/samurai and the daimyō] being [the buke/samurai and the  daimyō] absorbed  [the buke/samurai and the daimyō] into the hereditary peerage of the Great Japanese Empire, the Kazoku ["Magnificent/Exalted lineage" |Kazoku|]. 

 Japan still gains Taiwan and the Pengu Islands from [Japan] defeating the Manchu-Imperial House of Aisin Gioro-ruled, Manchu dominated Great Qing Empire ruling [the Great Qing Empire] over Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, East Turkestan, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, Shanxi and Yunnan from Manchuria in the First Sino-Japanese War of 25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895, [Japan after |Japan| defeating the Great Qing Empire in the First Sino-Japanese War] transforming Taiwan and the Pengu Islands into the Japanese province of Formosa, and [Japan] subsequently [Japan] still [what Japan still does] liberating the impoverished, underdeveloped Han Chinese-Korean Royal House of Jeonji Yi/Yi dynasty/Lee dynasty-ruled absolute royal dynastic monarchy of the Great Joeson State/Kingdom of Great Joeson/Great Joeson/Great Joeson Kingdom/Joeson from the Great Qing Empire, [Japan] essentially [Japan] making Joeson into a protectorate [Joeson] of Japan after [Japan] liberating it [Joeson] from the Great Qing Empire after the First Sino-Japanese War, [Japan] promoting industrial development, modernized education, economic development and social equality in the Korean peninsula and [Japan] slowly eradicating the influence of Joeson's parasitic aristocrat class, the sex-slave having, out of touch, outdated, pre-Qing and pre-Mongol Empire Han China loving, Confucianist and neo-Confucianist indigenous Korean Yangaban noble class from the Korean peninsula while [Japan] assimilating suitable yangaban families into the Kazoku via intermarriage, adoption, concubinage and multiple marriages, but [Japan] more aggressively [Japan] promoting the indigenous Korean script for writing the Korean language, Hangul and [Japan also more aggressively pushing] the heavily modified traditional Chinese characters used to write the Japanese language, Kanji, [Japan's more aggressive promotion of Hangul and Kanji]  over the Chinese characters used to write the Korean language, Hanja in Joeson, although when Japan finally [Japan] dissolves Joeson in [when Japan dissolves Joeson] 13 October 1897 with the successor state of Joeson, the unitary parliamentary absolute imperial royal dynastic monarchy of the Korean Empire being [the Korean Empire] formed [the Korean Empire] the very same day, Japan doesn't [Japan] make the last king of Joeson, Yi Myŏngbok who's [Myŏngbok's] temple and regal name was [Myŏngbok's combined temple and regal name] Gojong, [Japan not making King Gojong] Emperor of the Korean Empire, [Japan not making King Gojong Emperor of the Korean Empire] instead [Japan] making his [Gojong's] illegitimate son, Yi Kang, whose's [Kang's] princely name was [Kang's princely name] Uihwa, [Japan making Prince Uihwa] Emperor [of the Korean Empire] instead of him [Gojong], [Japan making Prince Uihwa Emperor of the Korean Empire instead of Gojong] due to Uihwa being [Uihwa] more popular [Uihwa] among the Korean people and Gojong's failure to [Gojong] curb the power of the yangaban, although real power in post-Qing Korea still lies with the Japanese Resident General. 

 Japan still [Japan] dissolves the Korean Empire in [when Japan still dissolves the Korean Empire] 29 August 1910 and [Japan] subsequently [Japan] annexing Korea, [Japan] still making the Korean peninsula into the Japanese province of Chōsen after [Japan] annexing Korea, and [Japan still gaining] Sahlakin and the Kurils during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1920, [Japan] still [Japan] making these areas [Sahlakin and the Kurils] into the Japanese province of Karufuto. 

 The 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution against the Great Qing Empire] launched [the Xinhai Revolution] by [who launches the Xinhai Revolution] a coalition of the Han Nationalist, Han supremacist and Han expansionist Tongmenghui and with Cantonese independence and Cantonese nationalist groups against the Great Qing Empire, [the Xinhai Revolution] remains steadfast in its [the Xinhai Revolution's] goal of [what the aim of the Xinhai Revolution was] "Overthrow Qing, restore Ming", which ["Overthrow Qing, restore Ming"] meant ["Overthrow Qing, restore Ming"] that [the meaning of the slogan "Overthrow Qing, restore Ming" during the Xinhai Revolution]  the pre-1644, pre-Great Qing Empire, Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled feudal imperial dynastic absolute dynasty royal monarchy of  the Great Ming State/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming dynasty" would [the Great Ming State/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming dynasty"] be [the Great Ming State/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming dynasty"] restored [the Great Ming State/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming dynasty"] as the government [the Great Ming State/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming dynasty"] of Han China proper  after the overthrow of the Great Qing Empire, with the stratocratic [military-ruled/military dominated |stratocratic|] Beiyang Government of the federal parliamentary presidental republic under military dictatorship of the first Republic of China ruling [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] over post Xinhai, post-Qing Han China never [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] being  [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] a Republic  [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] upon its [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] formation in [when the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China was |the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China| formed] on 10 March 1912 but [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] instead  [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] always being  [the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China] the Empire of China formed by the top dog in the Great Qing Empire's combined naval, aeiral and ground combat forces, the New Army turned rising star in the Beiyang-ruled ROC's political establishment after the Xinhai Revolution and eventually first president of the first Republic of China, the Han Chinese Yuan Shikai on [when Shikai transformed the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China into the Empire of China] 12 December 1915 in OTL, with the Imperial House of Zhu being [the Imperial House of Zhu] reenthroned [the Imperial House of Zhu] as the Chinese imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu]. 

This [the Beiyang Goverment being formed as the Empire of China ruled by the Imperial House of Zhu and |the Beiyang Government| never |the Beiyang Government| being |the Beiyang Government| a Republic |the Beiyang Government|] is  [the Beiyang Government being |the Beiyang Government| formed |the Beiyang Government| as the Empire of China ruled by the Imperial House of Zhu and |the Beiyang Government| never |the Beiyang Government| being |the Beiyang Government| a Republic |the Beiyang Government|] due to [why the Beiyang Government is |the Beiyang Government|  formed |the Beiyang Government| as the Empire of China ruled by the Imperial House of Zhu and |the Beiyang Government| never |the Beiyang Government| being |the Beiyang Government| a Republic |the Beiyang Government|] the influence of  the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society, which [the Yellow Sand Society] has [the Yellow Sand Society] been [the Yellow Sand Society] been  [the Yellow Sand Society] gathering strength and influence among the Chinese people, the pervasive influence of the Cantonese-Han Chinese secret societies and organized crime syndicates known as the Triads, which [the Triads] are pervasive through Cantonia [Guangdong and Guangxi] and [the Triads] also have the goal of [the Triads' goal] restoring the the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China despite their [the Triads'] criminal activities and also to counter the influence of the charismatic leader of the Xinhai Revolution and subsequent founder of the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist, semi-fascist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang after the toppling of the Great Qing Empire via the Xinhai Revolution and the subsequent formation of the Beiyang-ruled first ROC as the government of Han China, the Cantonese-Hakka doctor turned Han nationalist revolutionary and stateman Sun Wen, who [Sun Wen] is [Sun Wen] known as [Sun Wen's other name] "Dr. Sun Yat-Sen" outside Asia along with the desire of the Han Chinese people to emulate the Meiji Restoration, as well as Japan taking a more involved and direct role in [Japan] helping to [Japan] covertly support and [Japan] direct the Xinhai Revolution.


Due to Shikai never [what Shikai never does] proclaiming himself [Shikai] as Emperor of Han China and the Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] being [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] restored [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] as the government [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] of Han China through the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China], [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu being |the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu| restored |the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu| as the government |the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu| of Han China] as was the goal of the Xinhai Revolution [restoring the Ming to power in Han China after the overthrow of the Qing], the modern warlord era of post-Xinhai, post-Qing Han Chinese history from 1916 to 1928 never happens due to the vast majority of Han Chinese people supporting the restored monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] and the reenthroned Chinese imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu] being [the Imperial House of Zhu] ready [the Imperial House of Zhu] to [the Imperial House of Zhu] listen to the Han Chinese people's needs.



Yuan Shikai still [Shikai] creates an extensive peerage system for the Empire of China but [Shikai] merges it [the Empire of China's peerage system] with [what Shikai merges the Empire of China's peerage system with] the pre-Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Mongol Nation/"Mongol Empire" and its [the Great Mongol Nation's] successor state ruling over much of Siberia, parts of Central Asia, Inner and Outer Manchuria, Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Greater Mongolia, the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Yuan Empire/Great Yuan State/Yuan dynasty, [the pre-Mongol Empire and pre-Yuan dynasty] Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhao-ruled Great Song State/Great Song/Empire of the Great Song/"Song dynasty"  and the pre-Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Manchu-dominated Great Qing Empire/Empire of the Great Qing ruling over Han China, Greater Mongolia, Tuva Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Inner and Outer Mongolia, Ming era [the pre-Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing] Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility, [Yuan Shikai merging the Empire of China's peerage system with the pre-Mongol Empire and pre-Great Yuan Empire, Song era and pre-Qing Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] to [Shikai] create a coherent, united aristocratic system of peerage for the country [the Empire of China]. 

 The descendants of the last emperor of the Great Ming State, Zhu Youjian, who [Youjin] had the era name of [Youjin’s era name] Chongzhen, and the last emperor of the Ming rump state of the Southern Ming, Zhu Youlang, whose [Youlang’s] era name was [Youlang’s era name] Yongli being [the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli] are [the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli] merged [the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli] into a single imperial line [the descendants of Chongzhen and Yongli] via multiple marriages, concubinages and adoption, although the marriage of Shikai's daughter to the last Emperor of the Great Qing State, the then young Aisin-Gioro Henry, whose [Henry's] era name was [Henry's era name] Pu-Yi, [the marriage of Shikai's daughter to Henry] as one of his [Henry's] wives continues and goes on despite Shikai never [what Shikai never does] crowning himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China.

Shikai's reenthroment of the Zhu after the formation of the Empire of China instead of [Shikai] crowing himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China ironically solidifies his [Shikai's] legacy and [Shikai's reinstatement of the Great Ming State through the Empire of China] also prevents the mass session of provinces from the Beiyang-ruled first ROC due to reformers, modernists and decentralists both in the Kuomingtang and the Beiyang government structure promoting a federal government structure that allows for the autonomy and freedom of the provinces of Han China proper within the boundaries of the Empire of China, akin to that in the German Royal House of Hohenzollern-ruled Kingdom of Prussia-dominated German Empire. 


The American educated Cantonese statesman Tang Shaoyi becomes [Shaoyi] the first Prime Minister [Shaoyi] of the Empire of China from 13 March 1912 to 1915, [Shaoyi] followed by the Roman Catholic priest and monk Lu Zhengxiang  from 1915-1920, followed [Zhengxiang] by Xu Shichang from 1920- 2 June 1922 and then by Wen's chosen successor and heir of his [Wen's] will, Wang Jingwei from 1923-1947, who [Jingwei] presides over a alternate Second Sino-Japanese War pitting the restored Ming, Japan and even Qing-ruled Manchuria against KMT splinter cells lead [the KMT splinter cells] by [the leader of the KMT splinter cells] Wen's other student Chiang Kai Shek, and then [Jingwei being |Jingwei| succeeded as Prime Minister of the Empire of China] by Xu Hanhao of the Han Chinese nationalist, Han Chinese imperialist and Han Chinese expansionist Young China Party from 1948-1952, and then by Li Huang from 1952-1975, also [Huang] of the YCP, then Hua Guofeng from 4 February 1976 – 10 September 1980, who [Guofeng] remained in the YCP due to the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Han imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist fascist Chinese Communist Party remaining within the YCP, then Hu Jintao from 8 July 1985 to  1 December 1992 who [Jintao] remained in the YCP like Guofeng and the other CCP members, then Ma Ying-jeou of the KMT from 20 May 2008 – 20 May 2016, Eric Chu of the KMT from 20 May 2016 to  13 January 2024 and then finally Wenzhou Wu of the YCP from Febuary 2024, by the modern-era equivalent in this timeline. 


The National Protection War of 25 December 1915 – 14 July 1916 between the Beiyang-ruled first ROC as the Empire of China and what would become  the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang and the joint American-Soviet satellite state the KMT ruled with an iron fist, the Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China, then [the embyroic Nationalist China] under the rule of Wen/"Yat-Sen" [The National Protection War]  ends with the victory of the Empire of China over the embryonic Nationalist China due to Shikai never making himself [Shikai] Emperor and [Shikai] instead returning the Zhu to power in China, the Empire of China agreeing for Yunnan to [Yunnan] secede [Yunnan] from  the Beiyang-ruled first ROC and [Yunnan] subsequently restore the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled absolute feudal dynastic royal imperial monarchy of the  Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government in exchange for Yunnanese support against the Chinese nationalists, and Cantonian independence activists and supporters in the Nationalist strongholds of Guangxi and Guangdong undermining the Nationalist war effort. 

A miscommunication between Wen/"Yat-Sen" and his [Wen's] Japanese backers leads to the Japanese switching support from the Nationalists to the Beiyang-ruled ROC as the Empire of China during the National Protection War, although the Japanese do take Manchuria and Inner Mongolia as protectorates, [the Japanese] restoring the Manchurian monarchy [the Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro and the Great Qing Empire] in Manchuria and [the Japanese] reestablishing the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Yuan Empire/Great Yuan State/Yuan dynasty in Inner Mongolia. 

Wen/"Yat-Sen" is [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] killed [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] during the fighting and the Nationalist Chinese state headquartered in Guangdong and Guangxi essentially becomes a independent Cantonian republic after his [Wen's/"Yat-Sen"'s] death due to Cantonese independence activists and [Cantonese] nationalists desiring a separate state from Han China taking over Nationalist China after his [Wen's/"Yat-Sen"'s] death. 

The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1928-1947 between the Japanese Empire and Nationalist China with both the USA and the USSR backing Nationalist China never happens due to the earlier death of Wen/"Yat-Sen" and the Beiyang Government's Japanophilic, pro-Western leanings. 
Although Kai-Shek does [Kai-Shek] attempt to [Kai-Shek] lead Kuomingtang splinter cells in Nationalist China in rebellion against both  Nationalist China and the Empire of China in the 1920s, the Cantonese people, [the Cantonese people] satisfied with independence from both Han China and Manchuria, [the Cantonese people] are uninterested in his [Kai Shek's] dreams for a Greater Nationalist China having all the territory of the Qing dynasty despite significant support for him [Kai-Shek] from both the USA and the USSR and Kai-Shek finds himself [Kai-Shek] a virtual outcast [Kai-Shek], [Kai-Shek] eventually being [Kai-Shek] assassinated [Kai-Shek] by a Triad assassin when [Kai-Shek] leaving Nationalist China in around 1939-1940.  

The restored Great Qing Empire in Manchuria does transition into the Japanese protectorate of the Qing Imperial family, the Manchu House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Empire of Manchukuo in Manchuria in a slow process of constitutional reform and governmental development from the late 1920s until the early 1930s and the restored Yuan dynasty in Inner Mongolia does transition into the Japanese protectorate of Genghis Khan-descended Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Mongolian Autonomous Federation/Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia's Chahar and Suiyan regions. 

The side branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Mongolian Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled joint-Islamic sultanate and Mongolian khanate of the Kumul Khanate in East Turkestan's Hami provinces, [the Kumul Khanate] takes over the rest of East Turkestan and East Turkestan never becomes a part of Han China. 

The theocratic Buddhist absolute monarchy of the Lama-ruled Kingdom of Tibet in Tibet is [the Kingdom of Tibet] never integrated [the Kingdom of Tibet] into China, [the Kingdom of Tibet] remaining independent [the Kingdom of Tibet] to this very day. 

The Beiyang Government is [the Beiyang Government] still  [the Beiyang Government] Japanophilic and  [the Beiyang Government] friendly to the West despite it [the Beiyang Goverment] being [the Beiyang Goverment] a modern incarnation [the Beiyang Government] of the Great Ming State in this scenario, with Japan still having good relationships with and a fair amount of control over the Beiyang Government. Due to the Second Sino-Japanese War never happening, the Beiyang Government, Manchukuo, Mengjiang and Imperial Japan all [the Beiyang Government, Manchukuo, Mengjiang and Imperial Japan] survive [the Beiyang Government, Manchukuo, Mengjiang and Imperial Japan] post-WW2 and post-1947 into the present day and beyond with Nationalist China surviving post-1949 into the present day and beyond.