Inner Asia

Inner Asia is a term referring to particular regions within Asia. It has a major overlap with some definitions of Central Asia, mostly the historical ones, but certain regions of Inner Asia (such as Manchuria) is not considered to be a part of Central Asia by any of its definitions. One way to think of Inner Asia is as the "frontier" of China, and as bounded by East Asia (consisting of China, Japan, andKorea).^[1] The actual extent of Inner Asia may be different during different periods in history. In 1800 it consisted of four main areas, namely the Manchuria (modern Northeast China and Outer Manchuria), Mongolia (Inner and Outer), Xinjiang and Tibet. All were part of the Qing dynasty and were garrisoned by Qing forces, but they were governed through several different types of administrative structure^[2] and not as regular provinces during most of the Qing period. The Qing government agency known as the Lifan Yuan was established to supervise the empire's Inner Asian regions.

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• 1 Definition and usage
• 2 Different languages
• 3 Related terms
  • 3.1 Central Asia
  • 3.2 Central Eurasia
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

說書 Speaking of Books

【說書】內亞（Inner Asia, Inner Euro-Asia）就是內陸亞洲或者內陸歐亞，這個由涵蓋了歐亞草原、沙漠與中亞的綠洲國家、高山的遼闊地區，在華人的教育中，一直被認為是中國的「邊疆」。然而，這裡的族群、社會與其生活型態與其地形一樣複雜多變，光用中國邊疆的角度，並不足以正確地認知內亞與東亞的關係。
蔡偉傑老師，是台灣少數研究內亞的青年學者，讓我們來看看他替大家開出來的書單，一起來認識廣大的內亞吧！