I think when Chinese Design is relevant, we will see it. Yes, China has a long and colorful history but there has been nothing new from China in a very very very long time except cheap labor and production. Everything else I see is based on the very distant past.
Can you define Chinese Design in one sentence? (you write too much for me to get a grasp of what you are trying to convey)
One can define the design from Japan, the Dutch Design, Germany etc.
All my friends who are from Taiwan say they are NOT Chinese, they say they are Taiwanese. So this rejection of being classified as Chinese might be the reason the design looks European or Japanese. Plus Japan had a great influence over Taiwan’s industrialization.