Haha, I may have exaggerated a bit for effect ;)
I was on Taobao and found myself some reliable suppliers of dice and minis, which made sense since China produces everything for the rest of the world.
I found some board games imports. There were a good few card games, too.
But i dont recall finding any RPG boss in Chinese. This is very cool!
I ended up finding gaming partners through the grapevine, but even they had difficulty finding suppliers and confirmed my suspicion that the hobby is still tiny. Nobody has any idea when I asked about rpg, boardgames, etc. Apart from a few card games board games. I found one gaming shop in the whole of Wuhan and it turns out it was a mini shop (again, no surprise when the manufacturing is all made in China).
Anyway, it was 8 years ago, so it's no surprise things have changed. They do tend to do so very quickly, over there.
Seeing translated versions is super encouraging! Thanks for taking the time, though.