I think the revolutionary terror of the French was in an altogether different mind and material set than the Chinese. French nobility was extremely entrenched and had a lot of inertia to continuing or reassuming power, an almost totally uninterrupted power for a millennium. Compared to the Chinese where they were dominated by foreign powers, where the authority of their royal and noble families where concentrated in a rump state of bureaucrats and repressed liberals, for a century they languished in humiliation and want. The multiple millennia of concentrated and cyclical rule of Chinese emperors was disrupted that there was no inertia to really bring it back. Even the kuomintang would likely only retain the child emperor like a figurehead of Japanese nature.

Which can also lead you back to the Russian revolution, what place would the Romanov children have? You would have to hide their identities from everyone, the whites where desperate for some central power to harken to, and its one of the main reasons why their project failed in my opinion.