美国历史学家罗兹·墨菲在其著作《亚洲史》中阐述了一个“季风亚洲”的概念。他认为阿富汗以东、苏联以南的亚洲地区,由于受季风的影响温暖而潮湿,截然不同于中东地区的沙漠景观和苏联的寒冷地带,是一个共同性多于差异性的区域,并把该地区称之为季风亚洲。在墨菲眼里,季风亚洲充满了磁力:这里的文化和历史经验超过了人类总和的一半,这里容纳了全球 The American historian Rhodes Murphy elaborates on the concept of a “monsoon Asia” in his book The History of Asia. He believes that the areas east of Afghanistan and south of the Soviet Union are warm and humid due to the monsoon effect. They are quite different from the desert landscape in the Middle East and the cold areas of the Soviet Union. They are more common and different than the differences. The area calls it Monsoon Asia. In the eyes of Murphy, the monsoon Asia is full of magnetism: here the cultural and historical experience exceeds the sum of mankind by half, which accommodates the world