South China

(华南地区: Chinese)

* Flag
* Coat of Arms

Tsai Ing-wen

* Vice President

Lai Ching-te

* Premier

Su Tseng-chang

**South China**, officially the **Republic of China** (**ROC**), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Chinese Heart and sharing a land border with North China, Vietnam, Yunnan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Its maritime border is formed by the East Chinese Sea. South China claims to be the sole legitimate government of North China and adjacent islands. It has a population of 705.79 million. The capital and largest city is Canton. Other major cities include Chungking, Shenzhen, and Chengtu.

South China was first occupied by a Chinese dynasty in 1046 BC, by the Zhou. The land grew, as it would, with most of the people living in modern day South China, lived by the Yangtze, or Pearl rivers. In 201 BC, the Han Dynasty took control of China, and greatly adjusted South China to North Chinese technology and culture. The empire grew, fractured, and re-unified, was invaded and re-established, absorbed foreign religions and ideas, and made world-leading scientific advancements, including the Four Great Inventions: gunpowder, paper, the compass, and printing. Following the fall of the Han, the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties took control after centuries of disunity. The multi-ethnic Tang embraced foreign trade and culture along the Silk Road, and Buddhism was adapted to Chinese needs. The early modern Song dynasty (960-1279) became more urbanized and commercialized. To replace the military aristocrats of previous dynasties, civilian scholar-officials or literati used the examination system and Neo-Confucianism ideas. In 1279, a Mongol invasion founded the Yuan dynasty, but the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) restored Han Chinese control. The Qing dynasty, led by the Manchus, nearly doubled the empire's size and formed a multi-ethnic state that served as the foundation for the modern Chinese nation, but it suffered major losses to European imperialism in the nineteenth century, through partial colonization, especially in the so*uth*.

China joins WW1, on the Central Powers, and invaded Japan-Korea. The invasion was initially successful, but due to anti-war, separatist, and government reform protests, China enrolled into civil war, but still maintaining in WW1, even getting land in the peace treaty, which did not satisfy the Chinese populus. A civil war between the fascist Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also began in 1927. The Kuomintang won in 1933, and invaded Japan-Korea again, after likely staging the Dalian Incident, starting the Second Japanese-Sino War. China joins WW2, against the Germans. Due to support from Mitteleuropa, and Japan's reinforcements, China ultimately looses, being divided into Japanese-compliant nations. Japan, along with China, turns to fascism under Hirohito, after abusing power. The Chinese states participate in WWIII under Japan, with them losing after the Germans and Soviets declared peace over each other, the Treaty of Shanghai was signed, splitting China into a south, democratic nation, and a north, communist nation. South China would go on to become prosperous, with new technologies being invented.