In January 2019, the People’s Court Daily, the newspaper of the Supreme People’s Court, reviewed the book 情理法与中国人, Feeling, Reason, Law and the Chinese. The review summed up the book’s order: “‘In accord with feeling’ is the most important, ‘in accord with reason’ comes next, and ‘in accord with law’ comes after that.”
The review added that the everyday saying 法不外乎人情, the law does not stand outside human feeling, “is not wrong.” Here 人情 means the shared feeling of an era, not personal favors.