Well, Confucianism is as much about choosing the benevolent and harmonious path as it is with relationships and order.

You can't really talk about a Chinese society and only bring up Confucianism as it is also a mix of Daoism and Buddhism - all three of which are at odds with each other.

I would think Daosim and its ideas of the needs and rights of "self" would be closer linked to official corruption than that of Confucianism.