Since then, the code has become a political football, bouncing back and forth between the rule-of-man and rule-of-law factions.In the code's first year, there were only 98 cases in the whole of China, even though, on proper accounting, virtually the entire state-owned sector was insolvent.
In amateur boxing, women follow the rules of men's boxing with a few exceptions the rounds are shorter, and women wear breast protectors, with groin protection being optional.
Censorship "has obvious characteristic of 'the rule of man' rather than the rule of law," Mr. Shi said.
They believe that democracy, which entails the rule of man by man, is a negation of Islam's insistence on man's obedience to God alone.
The rule of law is being replaced by what Mr Kapur dubs the rule of man: politicians and central bankers are changing the system on the hoof.
Curiously, the way in which Ai Weiwei's freedom was restored — arbitrarily, unannounced, with no formal proceedings — embodies the very force that he has criticized for nearly a decade: the rule of man over the rule of law.
Though some strands of the faith, such as Salafism, reject the "rule of man", and therefore democracy, as incompatible with the "rule of God", quite a few non-Arab Muslim states, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia, are fairly democratic.
Whereas Europe gradually came to accept the rule of law, China has always been under the rule of man.Stand by your manIn practice, the rule of man means that investors can sue all they like in China's courts, but unless they have powerful political connections they will waste their time.
Contrast guǎn with zhì, the more abstract term for "rule," which appears in China's hot-button debate about the difference between "the rule of law" (法治, fǎzhì) and "the rule of man" (人治, rénzhì), as well as in official terms like "Autonomous Regions" (自治区, zìzhìqū) and "to punish" (处治, chǔzhì).
