How does "socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics" differ from the rule of law?

1.1 Concept of Confucian LawConfucian law is the East Asian tradition's base — not "law" as state-command but the li — the rites, propriety and moral education ordering society through ritual, hierarchy and example, in preference to fa (state law with punishments). Confucius (551–479 B.C.E.) taught that the well- ordered society flows from virtue's cultivation: the ruler's moral example, filial piety (xiao), the five relationships' reciprocal duties — law's ideal is the rule of men (the virtuous) over the rule of law (the punitive). Its rival and complement — Legalism (the fa jia: Han Fei's statecraft — clear rules, certain punishments, no virtue-talk: the Qin unification's harsh instrument); the imperial synthesis (the Han dynasty's "Confucianization of law," 2nd century B.C.E. onward): fa as the skeleton, lias the soul — the codes' punishment graded by status (the offender's and victim's relationship), the family's legal primacy (the group's responsibility, the ancestor's rights), mediation's preference over adjudication (the community's harmony over the individual's victory), and the magistrate's fusion of administrative and judicial office (the hsien magistrate as both — no separate judiciary for two millennia). The tradition's comparative signature: law subordinate to ethics; harmony over rights; mediation over trial; the empire without a legal profession (the despised pettifoggers — litigation as social failure).1.2 Concept and Sources of Modern Chinese LawThe modern arc: the…