Is China a Collection of Powerful, Hungry Barbarians Fighting Each Other?

The chinese emperors have typically been atheists. The values they followed were usually a certain amalgam of confucianism and legalism. Legalism is the strict confucians is the carrot. So that is how china was. It is certainly a great civilization. I would certainly give them that, that status. And it's not like i'm doing them a favor by doing it. They are all right? Is was china a collection of powered, hungry barbarians fighting each each other without presents of higher values from time to time? Yes, you could say say so. But that's how it is'.