@Morghur from everything I've witnessed this seems to be true.

Infact the main reason China has such a vendetta against the Western world is because we burned and destroyed all their precious artifacts/treasure that they kept for centuries in pristine condition when we invaded them in the late century.

After that it wasn't hard for the Communist to come in and convince them to destroy the very last of the artifacts they had to quote remove the century of humiliation and regain power by embracing the modern world.

@Morghur The Chinese believed that the reason why the Western world was able to advance ahead of them is because the old dynasty was weak corrupt and hung to tradition to a suicidal degree, so in the Communist offered of revolutionary idea of shedding off everything including tradition to regain their honor the Chinese people accepted.

That is why China is so obsessed with trying to beat the Western world at everything in particularly military power because they believe they will lose the mandate of heaven if they do not show strength.

If you want to know what the Chinese looked like without being bug people look at how they behave in Taiwan that's a fragmentary remnants of what they used to be culturally.