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"The British cleaved Liangguang from the Qing, and made its' people not only Opium addicts & smugglers, pirates, hedonists and ruthless merchants, but proud to be so - to the point that it's glistening lights of depravity attracted even more than was originally bargained for." - Moeller van den Bruck on Canton and British Imperialism, 1922.
Ever since the first European imperialist traders arrived in the ports of the Qing, China had not been the same. At first their influence was left only to trade monopolies, then to legation quarters in cities, then to the occupation of entire cities and lands in unequal treaties - burdens to a point that China could not cope with. The Taiping Rebellion not only spurred the end for the Qing, but the end of a unified china till the late 1950s.

Sensing the weakness of the state (or rather, lack there of), many European forces took to carving out zones of control in the beaten dragon. German forces established themselves in the Shandong, the Russians annexing into Manchuria and Mongolia, and the French left with Yunnan - but Britain itself took it upon itself to finish its' dealings in the Pearl River delta. If you could say that the Russians where already established in Manchuria, under their great cultural influence and railroads, the British might've been placing a new flag on land that was already theirs. For the decades since the 1830s and 40s, Britain had already all but ruled the southern provinces in all but name from first only Hong Kong, then the New Territories, then the East Bank too - and now, their rule was official. This left the transition as apathetically un-jarring to the Cantonese populace at first, for whom the only real impact was greater taxes in exchange for greater trade opportunities. But soon, the British Empire would find itself breathing new life into the old Liangguang provinces - Organisations like the Whitehall Institute, the newly founded British South China Company, the Victoria Administration and funds from Singapore, Delhi and beyond flocked to the Dominion, and soon great railways sprung up from all around the Pearl River and beyond, with factories coming not shortly after, setting the hearts of many British politicians and industrialists whom previously doubted the viability of the "Chinese Gamble Colony" at ease.

Whilst never the Crown Jewel of the Empire like India, or the great strategic hub of Malaya, Canton was still of great importance not only to the empire, but to the people living under its banner, for whom it did not take too long to start adjusting to living as "British Cantonese" rather than Qing subjects. Culturally, Canton would come to resemble the nature of Shanghai - a modernist international marvel at the heart of China, though on a much larger, and more Commonwealth oriented scale.

in the earlier 1890s, Taiwan, an independent state in all but name, ceded itself to the British Empire under Prime Minister Rosebury under fears of Japanese Occupation, upon which it was swiftly incorporated as a province of Canton, and brought into the developing industrial Cantonese Fold. This move permanently soured Anglo-Japanese relations, for whom the existence of the Dominion was already an affront to their influence in the region. Whilst the First World War briefly reinvigorated the British and Japanese Alliance, the Imperials in Tokyo no longer see it fit to sit idly by as their world destiny slips away from their grasp. Movements into China had already begun, first into the Manchurian Kingdom left behind under the Russian Revolution, soon into the Republics of China, and later, most definitely into the Canton.

" Japanese expansionism is not built upon the constitutionalism of Britain. It is a barbaric ideology, that has already slaughtered its way through Manchuria and China. Make ready, for soon it shall be upon the men and women of Canton. Soldiers! Stand tall, side by side with your comrades in the Commonwealth and the greater allies. May the Rifles of Canton, India, Australasia and Malaysia fight together against the Pacific Tyranny, and may the cannons of Indochina, the Philippines, America and the East Indies fire in tandem!"
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I may have listened to too much of ONRA's Chinioseries, which may've made me come up with this absolutely blursed nation, bringing the Commonwealth to the front lines of the Pacific War. Think Hong Kong but now its' got over 50 million people in it.
A very quickly thought of and done map, nothing particularly special or out of the ordinary.

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"The British cleaved Liangguang from the Qing, and made its' people not only Opium addicts & smugglers, pirates, hedonists and ruthless merchants, but proud to be so - to the point that it's glistening lights of depravity attracted even more than was originally bargained for." - Moeller van den Bruck on Canton and British Imperialism, 1922.
Ever since the first European imperialist traders arrived in the ports of the Qing, China had not been the same. At first their influence was left only to trade monopolies, then to legation quarters in cities, then to the occupation of entire cities and lands in unequal treaties - burdens to a point that China could not cope with. The Taiping Rebellion not only spurred the end for the Qing, but the end of a unified china till the late 1950s.

Sensing the weakness of the state (or rather, lack there of), many European forces took to carving out zones of control in the beaten dragon. German forces established themselves in the Shandong, the Russians annexing into Manchuria and Mongolia, and the French left with Yunnan - but Britain itself took it upon itself to finish its' dealings in the Pearl River delta. If you could say that the Russians where already established in Manchuria, under their great cultural influence and railroads, the British might've been placing a new flag on land that was already theirs. For the decades since the 1830s and 40s, Britain had already all but ruled the southern provinces in all but name from first only Hong Kong, then the New Territories, then the East Bank too - and now, their rule was official. This left the transition as apathetically un-jarring to the Cantonese populace at first, for whom the only real impact was greater taxes in exchange for greater trade opportunities. But soon, the British Empire would find itself breathing new life into the old Liangguang provinces - Organisations like the Whitehall Institute, the newly founded British South China Company, the Victoria Administration and funds from Singapore, Delhi and beyond flocked to the Dominion, and soon great railways sprung up from all around the Pearl River and beyond, with factories coming not shortly after, setting the hearts of many British politicians and industrialists whom previously doubted the viability of the "Chinese Gamble Colony" at ease.

Whilst never the Crown Jewel of the Empire like India, or the great strategic hub of Malaya, Canton was still of great importance not only to the empire, but to the people living under its banner, for whom it did not take too long to start adjusting to living as "British Cantonese" rather than Qing subjects. Culturally, Canton would come to resemble the nature of Shanghai - a modernist international marvel at the heart of China, though on a much larger, and more Commonwealth oriented scale.

in the earlier 1890s, Taiwan, an independent state in all but name, ceded itself to the British Empire under Prime Minister Rosebury under fears of Japanese Occupation, upon which it was swiftly incorporated as a province of Canton, and brought into the developing industrial Cantonese Fold. This move permanently soured Anglo-Japanese relations, for whom the existence of the Dominion was already an affront to their influence in the region. Whilst the First World War briefly reinvigorated the British and Japanese Alliance, the Imperials in Tokyo no longer see it fit to sit idly by as their world destiny slips away from their grasp. Movements into China had already begun, first into the Manchurian Kingdom left behind under the Russian Revolution, soon into the Republics of China, and later, most definitely into the Canton.

" Japanese expansionism is not built upon the constitutionalism of Britain. It is a barbaric ideology, that has already slaughtered its way through Manchuria and China. Make ready, for soon it shall be upon the men and women of Canton. Soldiers! Stand tall, side by side with your comrades in the Commonwealth and the greater allies. May the Rifles of Canton, India, Australasia and Malaysia fight together against the Pacific Tyranny, and may the cannons of Indochina, the Philippines, America and the East Indies fire in tandem!"
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I may have listened to too much of ONRA's Chinioseries, which may've made me come up with this absolutely blursed nation, bringing the Commonwealth to the front lines of the Pacific War. Think Hong Kong but now its' got over 50 million people in it.
A very quickly thought of and done map, nothing particularly special or out of the ordinary.