I doubt it was real history, but in the Chung Kuo saga by David Wingrove, back in the late Roman times there was a massive Chinese army that came very close, right up to the borders basically. And then turned back, went home. Think how history could be different if China had decimated and subjugated Rome way back then?
This series is about how China still didn’t do that, but in the near future they take over the planet. They build over everything, destroy all other language and culture and history. Then they teach the children that long ago the Chinese conquered the Romans, and it’s been this way ever since!
I doubt it was real history, but in the Chung Kuo saga by David Wingrove, back in the late Roman times there was a massive Chinese army that came very close, right up to the borders basically. And then turned back, went home. Think how history could be different if China had decimated and subjugated Rome way back then?
This series is about how China still didn’t do that, but in the near future they take over the planet. They build over everything, destroy all other language and culture and history. Then they teach the children that long ago the Chinese conquered the Romans, and it’s been this way ever since!