User blog comment:Elijahhee/What is this $hit!? On gunpowder for Chinese and Mongols/@comment-34147723-20190307005201/@comment-26842175-20190307094010

I guess we should be talking about china in the imperial age, which is from about 1300-1600 or something like that. I am not a scolar, but the internet says cannons were used in China.

(for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannon).

It is remarkable that the chinese are represented in the way they are. I think that AoE2 was mainly meant to be focussed on medieval europe and I doubt if Chinese armies would really fit into that.