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 scenario set in the world of the alternate history scenario, in which the death of Chiang Kai Shek in 1975 and Mao Zedong in 1976 lead to a power struggle within both the Chinese nationalist, Han supremacist, Han nationalist Chinese Communist Party-ruled de jure Marxist Leninist socialist republic but de facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist and Han imperialist totalitarian military dictatorship of the People's Republic of China ruling over [the East Asian territories the PRC controls] Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Manchuria and Shanxi since 1949, which [the PRC] Mao had [the PRC] ruled as both its [the PRC's] first and founding fascist dictator [Mao] from 1949 until his [Mao's] death and the Han nationalist, Han supremacist Leninist Stalinist Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China/Second Republic of China which [Nationalist China] Chiang had [Chiang] ruled [National China] as Generalissmo [Chiang] from 1928 and even during the period of its [Nationalist China's] exile in 1949 on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after [Nationalist China] losing the Chinese Civil War to the CCP and what would become the PRC as Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng battled the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China headed [the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China] by [the leader of the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China] Deng Xiaoping, which [the power struggles in both Nationalist China in exile after Chiang's death and in the PRC after Mao's death] lead to East Turkestan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and even Yunnan breaking away from the PRC along with Manchuria, leaving the PRC in charge of Han China alone. 


The CCP is [the CCP] reabsorbed into its [the CCP's] parent political organization, the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Han fascist conservative political organization adhering to Dr Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people (or welfarism) [the Chinese political organization the CCP broke away from], the Young China Party [YCP], which [the YCP] was [the YCP] named [the YCP] after the now- infamous Young Turks in the now long dissolved Turkish Imperial House of Osman-ruled Ottoman Empire, [the YCP] having followed the KMT and the ROC into exile on Taiwan in 1949 but [the YCP] returning to Han China after the PRC's overthrow by request of moderates within the CCP, [the CCP's remerger with the YCP] becoming [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] the YCP's ultra-nationalist left-wing [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] again as the YCP becomes the governing political organization [the YCP] of post-Mao, CCP-ruled Han China.

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 continues to grow in strength and [the Yellow Sand Society] increase membership and support, both among the Han Chinese peasantry and compromised government officials and [the Yellow Sand Society] overthrows the PRC in 1980 with the help of compromised elements of the CCP, the PRC's combined land, sea and air combat forces, the People's Liberation Army, the combined protection service for the elite section of the CCP, domestic secret police agency and border control division of the PRC, the Ministry of State Security, the paramilitary organization of the PRC's government  primarily responsible for internal security, riot control, counter-terrorism, disaster response, law enforcement and maritime rights protection, the Chinese People's Armed Police, along with the Triads, who [the Triads] have [the Triads] switched from the KMT and Nationalist China to the Yellow Sand Society due to their [the Triads'] initial formation as a means to restore the Great Ming State to power in China.

The Yellow Sand Society is forced to compromise with the YCP, [the Yellow Sand Society] restoring the Beiyang Government of the first Republic of China in the form of a restored Yuan Shikai-founded Empire of China as an Islamic sultanate under Sharia Law with the surviving descendants of the Imperial House of Zhu being reenthroned as the Chinese Imperial family in the place of Yuan Shikai's descendants, who are absorbed into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu. 

This restored Empire of China ruled by the Zhu instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants and is still officially referred to in English as the People's Republic of China but is referred to as the Empire of China or the Empire of the Great Ming in traditional Chinese.

 It flies the Beiyang Government's five-color flag with a golden-rayed, red sun version of the Nationalist China white sun emblem with the Chinese character for "Ming" in the center [of the Red Sun] in the middle [of the restored Empire of China's] flag, [the restored Empire of China] uses the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China's and the initial Empire of China's twelve symbols national emblem as its national emblem, uses the Wuchang Uprising flag as its Army flag and a version of Nationalist China's iconic Bue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth flag with a yellow sun, red inner rays and white outer rays as a tribute to the original Ming trade flag, a blue banner with a yellow sun with red rays. 

Yuan Shikai's descendants are absorbed into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu via concubine, polygamy and adoption as a means of forming a unified post 1644 Chinese imperial house and also to prevent any succession claims. 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] 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 is [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] subsequently restored, restructured, readjusted and modified for the modern world of the late 20th century,  [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] being  [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] merged with the system of peerage Yuan Shikai had [Yuan Shikai] created when he [Yuan Shikai] formed the Empire of China in 1915. 

After a series of tense negotiations and crises that almost sparked conflict in the China region, the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese government in exile in Taiwan and the Pengu Islands agreed to reunification with the now post-CCP and post-PRC-ruled Chinese mainland, with the restored Empire of China almagating some aspects of the Nationalist Chinese government into its own political, economic and military structure. The restored Empire of China's restored Bicameral legislative branch consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives, the National Assembly [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] absorbs National China's unicameral legislature, the Legistative Yuan into itself [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] with the KMT becoming a part of the political coalition governing the restored Empire of China, Nationalist China's combined land, air and sea combat force, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces absorbs the still-existing PLA into itself [the ROCAF] and [the ROCAF] becoming a restored version of the Beiyang Government's of the Republic of China's armed wing and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China's combined ground combat, naval warfare and aerial warfare branch, the Beiyang Army and from November 1928, the National Pacification Army [the ROCAF absorbing the still existing PLA into itself |the ROCAF| and |the ROCAF| subsequently becoming a restored Beiyang Army/National Pacification Army], the PLA's special operation force with an intended rapid-response units in the event of a limited regional war under high-tech conditions, also carrying out Special Operations, counter-terrorism, and intelligence gathering operations both inside and outside of China, the People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces, [the PLASOF] being [the PLASOF] absorbed [the PLASOF] into the ROCAF's elite special forces unit tasked with carring out special operations, including decaptation strikes in the events of a war, the Airborne Special Service Company, [the PLASOF being |the PLASOF| absorbed |the PLASOF| into the ASSC] the Nationalist Chinese National Police Agency which [the NPA] falls under the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of the Interior and [the NPA] oversees all all police forces within National China on a national level, [the NPA] absorbs the still-existing civilian police of the now-long dissolved PRC, the People's Police into itself [the NPA], [the NPA absorbing the People's Police into itself |the NPA|] and the Chinese People's Armed Police being [the Chinese People's Armed Police] absorbed [the Chinese People's Armed Police] into the National Police Agency's specialist unit and highly trained police tactical unit conducting high-risk arrests and other dangerous law enforcement duties, the Thunder Squad. 

Due to the reunification of Nationalist China with the Chinese mainland and the subsequent refusal of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] become a part [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] of mainland China, the Americans convince the Soviets to drop all support for the KMT-lead Nationalist China in exile and also to jointly return Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Japan in a repeat of the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972.


Fearing that pro-democracy protests in the joint US-PRC puppet state of the military dictatorship of the Republic of Korea occupying South Korea and the Soviet satellite state of the Worker's Party of Korea-ruled Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupying North Korea and from there spread to the USSR, thus affecting the stability of the Soviet Union, Soviet leaders also pressure the Americans to return all of the Korean peninsula to Japan with US and Soviet troops withdrawing from both the former DPRK and ROK in exchange for nonaggression treaties and an unofficial acknowledgment of the USA and USSR both starting the Second Sino Japanese War by backing Chiang Kai Shek against Japan during the Second Sino Japanese War. The Soviets also return Sahlakin and the Kurils to Japan. 


After the return of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, Sahalkin and the Kurils to Japan, the Japanese restore the post-1947, pre-DPRK, pre-ROK People's Republic of Korea founded [the PRK] by Korean independence activist Lyuh Woon-hyung in 1947 before its [the PRK's] subsequent invasion by both the USSR and USA and the subsequent establishment of the DPRK ruled [the DPRK] by Korean resistance fighter Kim-il Sung in North Korea by the Soviets and what would become the ROK in South Korea by the USA and the PRC, [the Japanese restoring the PRK] as the government [the PRK] of a united, post-DPRK, post-ROK Korean peninsula with a coalition opposition pro-democracy and anti-Kim and anti-WPK politicians from both the now dissolved DPRK and ROK serving in the restored PRK's government. 

The Japanese also restore the Ming satellite state, rump kingdom and tributary kingdom of the Japanese-Han Chinese Zheng dynasty/Royal House of Koxinga-rules Tungning Kingdom as the government [the Tungning Kingdom] of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, while [the Japanese] making Sahkalin and the Pengu Islands into the restored Japanese province of Karufuto.

This restored Empire of China is a provisional authoritarian absolute Imperial unitary monarchy under military dictatorship from 1981-1985, and then a constitutional parliamentary democratic absolute federalist unitary Imperial Royal monarchy with free and fair, democratic multiparty elections from 1986 onwards, being known as the Empire of China in both traditional Chinese and English onwards as well.

The Imperial House of Zhu-ruled restored Empire of China has an informal tributary status with Japan akin to the Beiyang Government-ruled First Republic of China's final incarnation as the WW2 era Japanese protectorate of the Reorganized Government of the Republic of China under Sun Yat Sen's protégé and rightful heir, Wang Jingwei [ Sun Yat Sen's protégé and rightful heir]. Sun Yat Sen is still honored as the father of the nation and his three principles of the people play a key role in the government of the nation, but its real founders are considered to be Shikai, Jingwei and controversially Mao.