Antiwar Asian scholars and the Vietnam/Indochina war

During the past fifteen years, various Asian scholars who had been active in the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) and have associated themselves with the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) have shared with me some of the thoughts, feelings, commitments, and expectations they had in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and have discussed how subsequent developments (in Indochina and other parts of Asia, in U.S. policy, and in Asian studies) have influenced their analyses, commitments, and careers. Their personal histories revealed not only nostalgia, regret, bitterness, and dedication, but also much about the nature of the field of Asian studies, U. S. policies toward Indochina, developments within Indochina, and the struggles of progressive scholars to make sense of these power relations and to analyze and identify with anti-imperialist forces. For this reason, it seemed that contacting the early leaders of CCAS and the active members of the editorial board of BCAS would be a valuable means of revealing some of the effects of Asian scholars on the Vietnam/Indochina War, and, even more so, the effects of the war on Asian scholars.