Prvo na Hedvbn cest Tomek Michal (2022)

This Czech-language nonfiction book explores the exchange of legal, spiritual and scientific ideas along the Silk Road. For centuries, European goods, discoveries in geometry and astronomy, Christianity and legal teachings travelled to China, while silk, paper, gunpowder, the compass, paper money and noodles travelled in the opposite direction, along with diseases that sometimes devastated Europe. Lawyer and sinologist Michal Tomek examines the interaction of legal cultures and the influence of Buddhism and Islam on Chinese society. He follows Chinas contacts with Tibet, Central Asia, the Mongols and European nations, including the Czech connection, and considers the relevance of this history to Chinas current development and its New Silk Road project. Numerous illustrations and more than thirty maps add to the books clarity.