Asia Magazine October 1921 Washington Conference Amy Lowell China Philippines

This issue is in Good condition. Cover is good front and back -- name written in pen on front cover. No rips, marks, or liquid damage to inside pages. Binding is tight. See photos for details.

An original issue of Asia: The American Magazine on the Orient — October 1921, Volume XXI, Number 10 — from the early, elegant era of one of America's most distinguished periodicals on Asian affairs. The cover bears what appears to be a handwritten signature, adding a personal provenance element to this already collectible issue.

The October 1921 issue arrives at a pivotal diplomatic moment: the Washington Naval Conference — the landmark international disarmament summit convening that November — is previewed in William Hard's "God and Chess at the Washington Conference," written by Asia's special correspondent assigned to cover the proceedings. The Washington Conference would reshape Pacific power relationships for a generation, making this a genuine piece of diplomatic history.

The contents page reveals an exceptional issue: Amy Lowell — one of America's most celebrated poets, Pulitzer Prize winner, and pioneer of the Imagist movement — contributes translations of Chinese poetry with Florence Ayscough, the renowned Sinologist, drawn from their landmark collaboration that would become Fir-Flower Tablets. Additional articles include "The Loveliest Lady of China" by L. Adams Beck with illustrations by Edith Emerson; "Native Factors in Pacific Problems" (a pictorial); "Off Duty in Baghdad" by Roland Gorbold; "The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains" from the Chinese of Li T'ai-Po; "My Apprentice-Days in Persia" by Youel B. Mirza; "The Philippines Before Magellan" by H. Otley Beyer; "Rough Weather in the Paumotus" by Frederick O'Brien; and "The President of the Far Eastern Republic" by H. V. V. Fay — one of the first Americans to travel from Peking across Mongolia and Siberia to Moscow.

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