No Chinese deeply believe in republican system. There is a 2000-year-old famous Chinese saying “none is born to be nobel and privileged”(王侯将相宁有种乎)Unlike japan,there are so many replacements of dynasties in history. read more
The current Communist rule is effectively another Dynasty, though not an “imperial” one. It will be quite impossible for another Imperial dynasty to rise up after the Communist rule has conditioned the Chinese into a republican mindset. read more