青海地处内地、西藏、蒙古、中亚(今新疆)之间,此间发生的诸多事件,是明清交际时期中国和内陆亚洲许多决定性历史进程的源头。从雍正朝开始,青海成为一个不容忽视的行政区划单位,这里设立了理藩院新分支机构——驻西宁办事大臣,地位日益重要。在高度多样性的人类环境中,青海独特的历史在经济、社会和政治体系管理各方面都有着自我界定的中心,并牵涉毗邻的更大外部世界。青海学应该成为一项专门地域学科,其发展将促进整个中国和内陆亚洲各领域研究的深入。 Qinghai is located between the hinterland, Tibet, Mongolia and Central Asia (now Xinjiang). Many of the events that took place here are the source of many decisive historical processes in China and inland Asia during the Ming-Qing intercourse. Since the beginning of the Yongzheng Dynasty, Qinghai has become an administrative division that can not be ignored. Here is the establishment of a new branch of the governorship, the minister in Xining, an increasingly important position. In a highly diverse human environment, the unique history of Qinghai has its own center of self-definition in all aspects of economic, social and political system management, and involves the neighboring larger external world. Qinghai should become a specialized area subject, its development will promote in-depth research in all fields of China and inland Asia.