Discussion list on Central Asia, established by the Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific & Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra to provide a world-wide communications vehicle and a central electronic archive for anyone working on, or interested in the study of, the broadly defined Central Asia’s history, politics, sociology, demography, economics, languages, culture, philosophy and religion, and to place these within the broader framework of the changing global order. This list has been most useful to people who study historical questions related to Greater Central Asia, including especially Western China, Tibet and Mongolia.