Talk:Chinese World

There would be enormous changes in the rest of East and Southeast Asia. With no unification of China, Confucianism would remain just one of several popular philosophies. With no Mandate of Heaven, and concomittant notion of one legitimate Emperor (no title of Emperor either, for that matter), political relations would be very different. Japan might remain ununified, too, for that matter, Tang Dynasty China having been the model behind which the Yamato uji consolidated its influence over the other uji into a nation-state. Unification might still have occurred, but it would've been slower and more gradual. At the same time, without a powerful China to compete with Japan, Japanese influence over Korea might remain strong, with at least parts of it under Japanese rule. Nik 09:24, 27 Mar 2005 (EST)