Critical Asian Studies (formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that welcomes submissions about all areas of Asia and the Pacific, particularly those that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding these regions, the world, and ourselves. Published now by Taylor & Francis, Critical Asian Studies remains true to the mission that was articulated for the journal upon its establishment in 1967 by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars: to develop a humane and knowledgeable understanding of Asian societies and their efforts to maintain cultural integrity and to confront such problems as poverty, oppression, and imperialism. to create alternatives to the prevailing trends in scholarship on Asia, which too often spring from a parochial cultural perspective and serve selfish interests and expansionism. In the tumult of the 1960s, in the midst of the American war in Indochina, and the American containment of the People’s Republic of China, a group of Asian studies graduate students and faculty came together to protest US foreign policy in the region and to reform the academic field of Asian Studies, which viewed the region through the lens of fighting communism. They called themselves the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) and they began publishing the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS). This was their statement of purpose: The world – and Asia – are far different today from what they were five decades ago when the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars was established. Many of our original concerns remain, but many new challenges confront us as well. We affirm the continuity of our efforts and voice our recognition of the new conditions we face. When in 1992 we changed the name of our flagship journal from the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) to Critical Asian Studies we did so because the latter captures four different aspects of our endeavor: it acknowledges that the issues we wish to confront in the twenty-first century are critical; it highlights our continued commitment as activists and scholars to the search for critical perspectives on local, regional, and global change; it articulates our criticism of the status quo; and it signals our self-critical assessments of the ways in which our efforts affect the world in which we live. The Bulletin was born out of the crisis of the Indochina Wars as an attempt to analyze U.S. policy in cold war Asia. Our initial focus was on the impact of U.S. power on the peoples of Southeast and East Asia – and the efforts of Asian people to define their own past, present, and future along different lines, including anti-imperialist and revolutionary ones. We later expanded our geographic focus to include South Asia, Inner Asia, and nations in the Pacific, as well as the experience of Asians in America. Our goals explicitly included examining the intellectual approaches by which Asia was understood in the West and the ways in which reigning theoretical frameworks in universities and professional institutions excluded Asian aspirations and experiences. Those goals, spelled out in our original statement of purpose, remain central to our scholarship.

Critical Asian Studies (CAS) is :

International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Asia and the Pacific area study, regions , Online or Print, Quarterly Journal

UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN - 1467-2715, E-ISSN - 1472-6033, Established in - 1967, Impact Factor - 1.7

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