abstract
| - Hani under Sierran suzerainty (Han: 哈尼小ゝ二立ゝ二⼟內華達, tr. Hani bansan no Serra) was a period in Han history that started with the Han–Sierran Protectorate Treaty in 4th June 1905 following the Han–Sierran War. The treaty was commonly considered an unequal treaty, and gave Sierrans Han suzerainty whilst the Hans retained sovereignty as a protectorate, albeit one that was heavily influenced by the Sierrans. The territory and government by which Sierra governed Hani was known officially as the Protectorate of Sierran Hani with the shorthand name, Sierran Hani. Despite being nominally only under Sierran suzerainty, in reality, Sierra had partitioned Hani into numerous spheres of influences among its fellow American allies (Brazoria, Britain through Britain, and the United Commonwealth) – with varying treatment of Hans within each region. Sierrans directly controlled the island groups of Lusong; the United Commonwealth administered Bisayo; Brazoria administered Shonanmin; and Britain administered Solwoun. The capital of Hanyang was divided into four Anglo-American sections: Sierran Hanyang (which was the de facto administrative center of the entire Han territory), Appalachian Hanyang, Brazorian Hanyang, and British Hanyang. The governments and interests of Missouri, Hudson, New England, and Dixie were also present in Hani. To ensure stability, Sierra gave members of the pro-West reformist faction places within the government, and ousted the Yi Imperial Household, seeing them as a threat to their power. Hani would begin a revolt during the mid-thirties, with two rival parties, the Grand National Party and the Han Worker's Party leading a guerrilla war resisting American forces. However, this underground resistance movement will eventually accede to warfare, with the Hans taking advantage of American preoccupation with the Second World War and Imperial Japan to their advantage. Hani would repel foreign occupation, culminating in full independence in the Hanyang Declaration (or the Hanyang Convention) 8th January 1945; just mere months before the even more devastating First Han Civil War and the strengthening of North–South divisions. After the war, the 1905 Han–Sierran Protectorate Treaty was declared null and void (a declaration of its illegality and nature as a unequal treaty) and Sierra paid a sum of a billion dollars worth of reparations to the Yi Imperial household and those who lost family members during the Han–Sierran War. The economic modernisation and industrialisation of the Han archipelago, while had begun during the later Yi dynasty, had accelerated under Sierran suzerainty. However, this was at the cost of Han beliefs of collectivism, conformity, and social conservatism. The manner of the acceleration of industrialisation under Sierran suzerainty; the utilisation of industrialisation primarily for purposes that would benefit solely the Sierrans and their American allies, the exploitation of the Han people within their own country, the marginalisation of Han history and culture, and the land's environmental exploitation, and other alleged negative effects, would contribute to anti-Americanism among Hans even to this day.
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