"payback"

[Victor Steinbok]

This is probably accurate--can't really tell without looking at the
journal. Up to 1917 it was just the Journal of the Association. It
became Asia--not sure if that was the full title, as it may well have
been "Asia: The Journal of ...". Normally, Harvard records list
cross-references to other titles for the same serial, but this Harvard
record is isolated, as are some others. I would say this is far more
unusual than GB's tagging a title on the entire journal based on only a
few years that title was in use. In 1942 it changed the name and started
publishing the Monthly Review of the East and West Association as well.
I find it hard to believe that 1946 was the last year of publication,
but Harvard records sort of indicate that it became "United Nations
World", which is a bit odd, after merger with Free World and
Inter-American. However, this appears to be correct, as UNW started
publication in 1947. (And I was a bit puzzled why Harvard's Yenching
Library would not have the full set--filing under separate titles
explains that, and the library does appear to have a full collection, as
do at least two other Harvard libraries.)

Whatever the case, the catalog number is HF3119 .A5

I am glad it is more widely available than I initially thought.
Searching for a serial titled "Asia" did not appeal as a prospect, at
the time, which is why I cut my search short. No excuse, I suppose.

     VS-)

On 2/29/2012 10:58 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Harvard says that "Asia and the Americas"\was
> published "[Vol. 42, no. 11] (Nov. 1942)-[v. 46,
> no. 12] (Dec. 1946)" and "Continues: Asia (New
> York, N.Y. : 1917) ISSN:0891-3536".  So the name
> changed in 1942, and perhaps again in
> 1947.  (Harvard does not have a "Continued by"
> note, so perhaps it ceased in 1946.  [As ordered
> by MacArthur?  :-) ]  Or perhaps the Harvard
> bibliographers missed its next incarnation.  They
> are not without error, as I have become notorious
> for pointing out -- they know my name.)
>
> Victor wrote (see above):
>   >  The journal had been published since 1898.
>
> Under a different title, "Journal of the American
> Asiatic Association", which "Began publication
> with: July 1898 issue; ceased publication with: Jan. 1917 issue."
>
> Victor also wrote:
>   >  Only Brandeis and UConn carry the full pre-war
> range in the Northeast. I've checked every library that
>   >  comes up on WorldCat--all of them have only the war years.
>
> If Victor looked only for the title "Asia and the
> Americas", which WorldCat lists as 1942-1946, he
> might not have found other libraries, those
> listing the title as "Asia: Journal of the
> American Asiatic Association".  But when I search
> WorldCat for "Asia and the Americas", the 3rd
> listing is "Asia : journal of the American
> Asiatic Association. by American Asiatic
> Association.", "Publisher: New York : Asia Pub.
> Co., ©1917-[©1942]" -- that is, including the
> year 1923.  Clicking on that brings up as the
> first library "Harvard College Library";
> following that will show that Tozzer holds 1923.
>
> Fortunately, I did not need to search the
> additional 27 libraries in the Northeast (if that
> means New England) that might also hold the 1923
> issue.  But it's not only Victor's Brandeis and
> UConn that claim to hold 1923 -- in addition to
> Harvard, the MIT library also holds 1923.  And
> there might be others -- I didn't check further.
>
> I still believe Google's metadata is faulty -- it
> gives a title for a 1923 issue of a journal that
> did not use that title in 1923.

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