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I'd call that clever, not cheesy. It's really no different than the Teutonic Order going from a rag-tag group of knights guarding German pilgrims in the Crusader States to becoming the conquering vanguard of Teutonic nationalism in the Baltic. They maintained the same name, but what it meant...

It's been over 100 years and two planet-wide catastrophes since Cormyr has been detailed in anything more than a very cursory manner. Things change. Things with the same name change. Even knightly orders change. The Order of the Garter today looks and functions nothing like the Order of the...

This has gotten buried among all the posts, but to clarify on Calimshan: "Calimshan was reworked with the help of Professor Shahreena Shahrani, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Culture at Ohio State University, to make a thoughtful new Middle Eastern version of the location. It is described as...

I totally forgot about that section in SCAG. So it would indicate that Shou Lung, Kozakura, and Wa are still extant; intriguingly, T'u Lung isn't mentioned. That might just be a rule of three thing, but still, it's a notable omission. That section on "what is over the western seas" just screams...

Oh, that vertical lettering is just the chef's kiss.

I was thinking along the same lines. The Shou Lung - T'u Lung divide mirrors times in China's history when there was a two-state north - south divide, but there are plenty of other possibilities that could have arisen in the last century. Shou Lung might have conquered T'u Lung as you said...

Kara-Tur was mentioned in the Humans section of the 2014 PHB, specifically being east of Faerûn. The Shou ethnicity was stated to be the most powerful and numerous ethnicity from the region. Granted, that's pretty much all we have in 5e so far, athough in one of the adventures in Candlekeep...

Yes, it could be done, but it would have a lot more to untangle, and would have a lot more potential pitfalls, than fixing Calimshan or even Kara-Tur. Colonialism is a much more charged issue than Orientalism is, as bad as the latter is.

Calimshan is reasonably close to Lantan, which is the big magi-tech center of the setting, so perhaps they're getting the magi-tech from there?