Today's Talk (3) (2001)

Author: Yin Li, Editor-in-Chief
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
Features: Among the hundreds of millions of Chinese people, how many have received systematic legal education? How much do they know about the law—societal norms that both protect and regulate individuals in their lives—and how much have they applied? Chinese people pay attention to legal programs because they continuously showcase the interplay and conflict between highly abstract and general legal provisions from books and the ever-changing, real-life cases outside of them, as well as the underlying legal philosophy and humanistic spirit. The existence of judicial corruption has become a heartbreaking reality for a nation determined to govern according to the law. Punishing corruption and supervising law enforcement are not only the needs of the country and the desires of the people but also our inescapable responsibility. However, the unfairness of some enforcers does not equate to the unfairness of the law. We are fully aware that judicial fairness can never rely on the emergence of an incorruptible judge like the legendary (Bao Gong) or depend on constant exposure by the media. We can only gradually foster the legal awareness and judicial confidence of the Chinese people by objectively presenting and commenting on one case after another. Remember the host’s daily phrase: "What you care about is what we care about." This book selects 200 outstanding cases from more than 700 episodes of CCTV’s Today’s Law program since its second anniversary. Each case is accompanied by expert legal commentary, stories behind the scenes from the host and frontline journalists, as well as letters from the audience and expert Q&A.