Asia was a popular American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 in the 1920s and 1930s that featured reporting about Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 and its people, including both the Far East

Far East

The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...

 and the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

. The magazine was published in New York City

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, and was founded by Gertrude Emerson Sen

Gertrude Emerson Sen

Gertrude Emerson Sen was an early 20th-century expert on Asia and a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers.After teaching English in Japan, Sen returned to the United States to became the editor of Asia magazine. In 1920 she undertook a round-the-world expedition which included stunt...

, who served as the first editor. The magazine was later edited by Elsie Weil. Writers published in the magazine included Lucy Fletcher Brown, John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos , a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder Dos Passos...

, Lev Nussimbaum

Lev Nussimbaum

Lev Nussimbaum was a writer and journalist, a Jew, born in Kiev, who spent his childhood in Baku before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14...

, Edgar Snow

Edgar Snow

Edgar P. Snow was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution...

 and Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist...

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