Well ROC is now the standard bearer and in 69 years its culture will recolonize the mainland after reunification, leading to another golden era in Chinese civilization.69 more years of ccp and prc is in peril of losing its chinese civilization.
Chinese civilization is always larger than its borders or government in power. Today you might include the diaspora and Chinatowns worldwide as extensions of the the civilization.
Anyway the CCP is more adaptable than we give them credit for. The leaders recognize this ideological vacumm which 'market socialism with Chinese characteristics' cannot fill (hence rampant corruption and greed and every man for himself). People need spiritual sustenance, meaning in life.
Hence after the heinous excesses of the Cultural Revolution and the lost generation after opening up, there's been an unspoken graduated backtrack on many aspects of policy on religion, traditional customs and the arts. The OOB markers, like in Singapore, are vague and keep shifting, but as long as you don't threaten the Party, you're ok. Grow too big and start critiquing the government, like the Falungong, and you're screwed.