Interesting! In a future smaller China with independent Manchu, (Inner) Mongolian, Tibetan and Xinjiang neighbours, chinese dress cheongsam perhaps there can be a Ming restoration? A truly Han China with a Han emperor? Of course Sun Yat-sen would see no irony in boasting of expelling foreign rulers from China while dressed in foreign attire. Such is the nonsense that happens when one tries to uphold ethnicity or race as the basis of national identity, rather than culture and defining institutions such as the monarchy. A very enlightening post indeed! Still, I will concede that western frock coats and top hats, while no substitute for hanfu or even changshan, are infinitely more stylish than those daft little jackets Mao Zedong made his people wear. The exalted Hongwu Emperor would be forgiven for descending from Heaven and giving Mr Sun a well-deserved clip around the ear for disrespecting the tomb of the Emperor in such a way. Of course, they had no such intentions, so enamoured were they with western ideals of republicanism that were utterly alien to Chinese society. If the Kuomintang had wanted to make good on their slogan, “反清復明” (“resist the Qing and restore the Ming,”) they ought to have raised the Marquess of Extending Grace to the imperial throne. I don’t agree with him on everything but that’s normal. I really must try and get my hands on Johnston’s book, it sounds like a fascinating read. On the whole I recommend it for being a very fair and impartial look at the period. Certainly. With many emperors having quite large numbers of children, family survival has never been much of a problem. Are there any known descendants of other Chinese dynasties? I suppose it’s a shame that there are no survivors of PuYi and no-one can find the descendant of the Marquis of Extended Grace. Even Confucius still has family in China today. After all, these men were, for good or bad, figures and important pieces of Chinese history.

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