Chinese 'dynasties' actually have roughly the same relation to each other as Rome and Byzantium - it's not a simple change of ruling family, it's an entire reconceptualization of empire each time.
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Think of something like Peter the Great calling himself Imperator Rus or Napoleon calling his soldiers 'the legions' and what that implied about the Roman legacy and you're much closer to the relationship between, say, Qing and Han than the idea of a single line of descent
Next you are going to tell me that the Holy Roman Empire wasn't, in fact, the clear and logical continuation of the Roman Empire of Augustus!
