In historic terms, better at what exactly?
Military? Hell no.
Religion? Hell no.
Architecture? Hell no.
Art? Hell no.
Science and the Scientific method? Hell no.
Writing? Hell no.
Literature? Not even close.
Medicine? Nope.
Linguistics? Lol no.
Engineering? Nope.

Bureaucracy? Yep. Certainly. They are inventors of an autocratic state run by babudom.

Nearly everything worthy of human appreciation was born in Roman, Hellenic, Persian and Indic Empires. Chinese have been nothing more than footnotes. Nothing beautiful or glorious came out of those barbarians.

I would be glad to appreciate them, there is no evidence of theoretical 'Chinese superiority'.

They are a rice-munching civilization which bred like rats for thousands of years just to slaughter each other again and again, then repeat, copy paste.