The Han Chinese mind and philosophy is still based on mandate from heaven. They have never understood or appreciated politics where citizens are treated as equals and have right to be involved, Their focus is therefore an instinct for self-survival for those below or near the poverty line and entrepreneurship for those who are better off.
In times of trouble there will be dissension and even rebellion but there is no intention to take territory or carve out a patch of land for political or political self determination.
It is one of the reason why the British and the Japanese despite their much smaller numbers could overwhelm the country. It does not mean the Chinese will readily cooperate or be easily subjugated. Both the British and Japanese found out conquest was one thing but subjugation was totally a different proposition and paid dearly.
Only the British found the Chinese secret much later and went into trade and found synergy in Chinese entrepreneurship. Hong Kong remains the shining example of that meeting of the minds.
So yes to holding together but internal rebellion as cry for help.
You're wrong on all counts.
The monarchy mentality is well and truly dead and mind you those were the manchus that ruled. If china fucked up during the last periods of the qing it was cause of the manchus not the han chinese.
If not please explain why taiwan and hk which are run by chinese have democracy? The way you are trying to put things is that somehow it's genetically imprinted in the chinese to have this type of son of heaven run society and if that were true as you put it well HK and taiwanese society of today would not exist. If you want to ues PRC as an example and how they run the govt today then might i ask you why would so many different countries adopt communism? Doesn't this mean that it isn't racial in nature like you put it by using the mandate of heaven but rather a social trait that any race could adopt? Mind you the mandate of heaven is just how monarchies in the past used to rule in which the king himself had sole authority and he did whatever he pleased with very little else to oppose him. All monarchies the world over used to do this and some even manage to do it even today. Take the sultan of johor doesn't his rule sound like a mandate from heaven? Isn't his offspring going to take over him and not someone else with more capability? So please stop trying to solely pin such a mentality on chinese ppl that they don't adopt today.
Another grouse i have with you is on the brits and the japs taking on china during those day. Did you know the brits and the japs did it to many many peoples too? Indians, africans, middle eastern ppl, russians etc goes on and on. The japs defeated the russians mind you. What you are trying to post right here is to somehow just solely blame china for its defeats to these 2 nations when nations the world over also fell to them. Also china needed a combined force of 8 nations to fight it. 8!! Sounds rather unfair but what is even worse are people like you that leave out these details and try to paint china as some failure when many many many other nations are bigger failures.
You see that is the problem with many ppl when they mention china and chinese as a whole mind you not china chinese but all chinese worldwide. People only mention the negative points of chinese ppl but totally ignore all their good points. You're the type of person that would change chinese ppl's hardworking ethic to that of being souless and greedy or totally ignore their hardworking ethic to just focus on something negative about them. The most ironic thing of all is you're chinese yourself and rest assured when ppl judge you they judge you just like how you judge chinese or rather china people. They will only look at your negative pts, ignore your positive ones or change your positive ones into negative ones.
Being racially aware i know why you would think like this. You dissociate yourself from ppl of china but that is not how others look at you. You dissociate yourself from the less eductaed sinkies and probably those chinese educated ones seeing yourself as "superior". A lot of chinese ppl try to dissociate themselves from other chinese and think they are superior. Like the english educated vs the chinese educated. The spgs with ang moh bfs from their chinese male counterparts. It's all so fucking stupid and the worst thing about this is showing it to them and pointing it out to them and they still won't get it.