Category: The Ashes of Purity: A Chinese Century of Pain and Reckoning

In this alternate timeline, the Huang-Han regime’s rise to power is marked by systematic ethnic cleansing, forced assimilation, and cultural genocide targeting non-Han ethnic groups within China’s borders. The Huang-Han state’s policies, motivated by Han supremacist ideology, escalate throughout the 1911–1937 period, with devastating effects on the minority populations. Below is a timeline of key…

By the 1930s, Huang-Han China has evolved into a fully authoritarian, ethnonationalist state dominated by Han supremacist ideology. However, this period also marks the height of its internal contradictions and external pressures, which increasingly threaten the regime’s fragile unity.

These textbooks play a significant role in shaping the attitudes of young people in the 1920s. They create a generation of Han Chinese who see themselves as the rightful heirs of a great civilization, while viewing minorities and foreign powers with suspicion or hostility.

A decade when revolution devoured its own ideals, and unity was sacrificed at the altar of blood and identity.

This is not a triumphant tale. It is a slow-burning reckoning with memory, identity, and the terrible weight of revenge disguised as rebirth. The empire may have ended—but in the name of rebuilding, something sacred was lost.