You find you have the same feelings. Also Japanese and Taiwanese films. The films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, for example. I feel closer to the Taiwanese films than the Chinese. The atmosphere, the dialog are closer to the real Chinese.
Chinese films present a fake reality.
There are not many films from China I like. You waste your time for three years, for example. So people begin to avoid the problem. People censor themselves. There is self-censorship.