啲歐洲文獻有時仲將「China」理解成漢人聚居嘅關內十八省，而將元、明、清境內北部嘅蒙古同滿洲列入「韃靼利亞」，即係兩者並列。譬如1857年法國傳教士古伯察出版嘅《Christianity in China， Tartary， and Tibet》就有話「喺印度，拜火嘅摩尼教徒俾埋啲印度教徒驅逐咗，至尾去到咗韃靼利亞、西藏同中國本土度，喺當地人當中苟延殘存。」
Some European texts sometimes also understand "China" as the eighteen provinces of Guannai inhabited by Han Chinese, and the inclusion of Mongolia and Manchuria in the north of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties as "Tataria" is a juxtaposition of the two. For example, in 1857 the France missionary Gouberza published "Christianity in China, Tartary, and Tibet" said that "in India, the fire-worshipping Manichaeans were expelled by some Indian believers, and eventually went to Tataria, Tibet, and China proper, and survived among the locals." 」