From what I heard about chinese public toilets, stools and urine is in fact the glory of China.
On topic - the difference between the blatant nationalism/patriotism in CN novels along with a great deal of the amateur JP novels and western writing is how blatant and in-your-face the former are. For example, John Ringo has a massive nationalism-on for Murica and, for the most part, contempt for Europe, but he usually at least covers it all up in a (rather thin) layer of gore and dakka (there is usually more gore and dakka around and beneath and nationalism). And he is one of the most egregious nationalists I read among American writers. And even he has the deeper message of "politicians bad", where Europeans are just more susceptible to bad politicians than Americans for whatever reason.