Lawyer's Tea House (Volume 2)

Author: Gong Ben Xin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: The academic and writing styles in the current legal field warrant reflection: we may read the adversarial nature of law from Western systems but fail to notice the Chinese cultural emphasis on moderation; we understand the paradigms of academic papers but remain trapped in rigid language. Such an atmosphere inevitably confines people's thinking within narrow boxes. The emergence of The Scholar's Tea House breaks this mold. The Tea House advocates using plain language to discuss the concerns of ordinary people, addressing issues they care about, and exploring legal principles in everyday life. It is refreshingly down-to-earth, free from condescension or forced application, offering only equal exchanges and intellectual collisions. It seeks to bring law out of the lofty "ivory tower" and into the homes of ordinary people—this is the consistent pursuit of The Scholar's Tea House.
The second volume of The Scholar's Tea House maintains and further develops the positioning, style, and features established in the previous volumes. On one hand, it emphasizes the authority of the authors, who include experts and scholars from theoretical research fields as well as judges and lawyers from judicial practice departments, essentially encompassing the academic strengths of the legal field across generations. On the other hand, it stresses the accessibility of the content, advocating for "using the language of ordinary people to discuss their concerns, addressing the issues they care about, and exploring legal principles in their daily lives."