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The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) was founded in 1968 by a group of graduate students and younger faculty as part of the opposition to the American participation in the Vietnam War. They proposed a "radical critique of the assumptions which got us [The United States] into Indo-China and were keeping us from getting out". [ 1 ]
Critical Asian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. It was articulated in 1967 by Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars , a group that coalesced around young scholarly opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War .
Cumings joined the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars at Columbia after Mark Selden formed a chapter there, [4] and published extensively in its journal, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, where his writings ranged from the early history of the Korean resistance movement against Japan to the intertwining of US academia with US ...
As a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, for instance, Esherick in 1972 published a critique of the field and of his undergraduate professor, John K. Fairbank, "Harvard on Imperialism." [2] Later such essays dealt with the Revolution of 1911, Chiang Kai-shek, [3] and the Revolution of 1949. [4] [5] [6]
He has been asked to comment on current Chinese and Tibetan affairs for the BBC and CNN International. [2] [4] Grunfeld has been a member of the US–China Peoples Friendship Association and a staff member and contributor to its journal New China, as well as a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and contributor to its publication, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (now ...
Bruce Cumings, writing in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, charged that for the AAS to participate in this way of funding scholarship on Asia led to confusing academic research and government intelligence work. He further argued that the areas studies approach in general emphasized contemporary social science theory, not the classic ...
The China Lobby in American Politics. Chan, F. Gilbert (1976), with contribution by Kagan, Richard. C. China in the 1920s: Nationalism and Revolution (A History of Modern China). ——— (2000). "(Review article) Disarming Memories: Japanese, Korean, and American Literature on the Vietnam War". Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. 32 (4): 25 ...
He graduated from Amherst College with a major in American Studies and completed a Ph.D. at Yale University in modern Chinese history. [3] He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in the 1960s and for more than thirty years served on the board of editors of The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (later Critical ...