Any good Chinese were the nationalists wiped out in the great revolution, and the philosophers and leaders executed after. The people alive now are those whose grandparents slaughtered and cannibalized their enemies, or cowered while their neighbors were taken away so they wouldn't be next.

Not saying there aren't a few nice individuals here and there, but on the whole it's a broken society of sad, cowardly collectivists just trying to survive by any means necessary. Even if China was broken up and federalized, it would take their culture hundreds of years to recover.