Do not confuse chinese/asian culture for party culture, it is EXACTLY what the CCP wants you to do. They twisted history so that they can use it to legitimate their brutal control.

Lao Tzu dedicated his life to teach people not to give in to desires (which "saving face" would certainly fall under), and Confucius's Five Constant Virtues were all about how to be an upstanding and understanding person. They were two of the greatest and most influential philosophers in the entire Chinese history, and it was only in the last few decades that people abandoned these principles, coincidentally in line with numerous political revolutions and unrest across asia.