I'm currently sitting at a 0% winrate against the Chinese Civilization. Any tips against them?

So, I've been playing a lot of AoE3:DE recently and so far I've encountered most civs except Indians, Portuguese and Dutch.

Its been back and forth, I've been winning games and losing games, its ok. But, there is one civ that I just can't win against: The Chinese.

Either I'm playing Russians or British (the 2 civs I've been somewhat ok at), I just get overrun by the chinese all the time.

I've just lost a game where I managed to rush and kill a few villagers but somehow it doesn't seem to matter, my opponent still got to amass a huuuuuuuuuge army of cavalry & chu-ko-nu while all I had were a few Musketeers and Cossacks.

How do you deal with the Chinese? Are they a top-tier civ that I should be aware of? How come they don't seem to slow down even after being rushed?

Thanks for the help guys!

EDIT: I should mention that I'm fairly new to AoE3 Online, never gave much attention to its Multiplayer component before Definitive Edition.