Critical Asian Studies, from foundation in 1969 until 2001 the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars is an academic journal in Asian studies that began as an organ of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, a group that coalesced around young scholarly opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War. Published now by Taylor & Francis, it is indexed by Scopus and the Bibliography of Asian Studies among others. In the estimation of , the journal was at its inception "radical, vibrant, at times excessive, and always politically minded.