Hey beachfront...
When people mention "asian" or "chinese" waxes, I believe they're referring to a heat applied, and set, hard wax. Blocks of hard wax are shaved to thin chips, then melted onto a wood surface by direct fire (torch), or by the standard of today - the heat gun. When heat is applied, the wax liquefies, penetrates the wood, and fills open grain and other minor surface irregularities. Once the wax has cooled, the film is polished to different levels of gloss (hand-rubbed to mirror finish). The wax continues to dry and actually become quite hard (not as hard as varnish, but significantly harder than paste wax).
I think the basis for many of these hard waxes are parafin, but you can also get dark brown beeswax hard blocks - while they don't dry as hard as parafin, and I don't think you can polish 'em to a high gloss, they still look great, as a hand rubbed finish on wood furniture + you can mix it with other, harder drying waxes for different colors and sheens...
Where do you get blocks of hard wax? I'm guessing the internet is gonna be your easiest source for finding this stuff...good luck.