I'm nearing the end of "We Have Been Harmonised" and am even angrier with the IOC than I already was.

Also, I am now convinced that the reason why no one good in a Chinese drama is every disloyal to the Emperor, even if he's a bad Emperor, is because the Party are perfectly well aware that they are the Emperor. So you can criticise the things about him that the Party ostensibly doesn't stand for, like excessive luxury, but you can't criticise the system of power that puts him there nor the Emperor as the instantiation of that power.