Thanks for the comment @moderninvestor
In regards to Bitshares specifically China has really only burst onto the scene in terms of trading volume (there has always been a large active Chinese community) in the last month with the introduction of Bitshares on CHBTC and a few other Chinese exchanges and partnerships with ViewFin as well as some Chinese ICOs coming onto the Bitshares network.
You can see they really dominating the market at the moment.
I have a friend of mine who is living in China at the moment, and he said nearly all of his colleagues, all day all they talk about are the newest and latest coins and how to invest in them.
he said at first he paid them no mind but eventually everyone he knew was doing the same, i think theyre going to have an absolutely massive infuence in the crypto world, even more than they have right now