Generic AH: Qing China survives Part II of II by OttoVonSuds, literature
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Generic AH: Qing China survives Part II of II
*** THE EMPIRE OF THE QING Much has changed in China since 1898, even if the monarchy still exists and bureaucrats wear robes. Despite being an authoritarian, nationalistic government with strongly statist economic policies the Qing Empire isn't just a rightwing version of OTL's People's Republic of China even if there are similarities such as having a large secret police[1], an economic agenda focused on modernization to name two examples. One of the biggest differences in China's retaining confucian-style "collective responsibility' and using the bao jia/household system as the means for surveillance/taxation/distributing welfare. Anoher strong difference is that China is structurally theoretically[2] an abolutist monarchy, as opposed to a party-state. Despite no communism, China's economy is only relatively as large as OTL's due to the United States not seeing any reasons to let east asia's exporters run one-way trade wars combined with the Qing favoring