User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 10-05'12 — World Gameplay Premiere/@comment-1379800-20120514050803/@comment-4043223-20120514065511

It's a possibility for sure, I have see a few different concept arts by artists at Ubisoft showing an Ancient Asian location. Thugh the art in question is their own personal work, it does show that there wasinspiration towards it at some point and may be in the future we will see more.