the founding and early years of the organization. He charged, however, that the radicals in the group originally accepted the idea of a Maoist China as an egalitarian alternative to Western capitalism, but that when Deng Xiaoping opened China to world neo-liberalism, these scholars lost interest in basic reforms. Richard Madsen of the University of California at San Diego sees the CCAS as part of a long line of populist criticism of academia, in this case projecting their values onto Mao's China. As graduate students, some of whom were in danger of being shipped off to Vietnam, "they identified themselves with the oppressed and saw the Cultural Revolution as a populist revolution expressing the aspirations of people like themselves." Their understandings of China, Madsen concludes, did not explain that cataclysmic event any more adequately than the social science theories they rejected. Richard Baum of University of California at Los Angeles claimed that the CCAS anti-establishment stance had a polarizing effect on the field, that its early members promoted Maoist doctrine uncritically. He continued that CCAS made ludicrous claims such as all U.S.-government funded academic pursuits were being manipulated by the U.S. government if they were not outright forms of espionage, a stance quickly espoused by the P.R.C. which led to distrust and suspicion between P.R.C. representatives and academics. Publications The Newsletter of the organization became the Bulletin of Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) in 1969. Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars., China! Inside the People's Republic (New York,: Bantam Books, 1972). Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars., The Indochina Story; a Fully Documented Account (New York,: Pantheon Books, 1970). Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars., Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Cambridge, Mass.: Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1969-2000). 32 vols. 1968-2000 issues (Volumes 1-32) available online free of charge. From 2001 published as Critical Asian Studies. Founding members and contributors Herbert Bix Molly Joel Coye Bruce Cumings Norma Diamond John W. Dower Tom Engelhardt Joseph W. Esherick Edward Friedman A. Tom Grunfeld David Horowitz Leigh Bristol Kagan Richard C. Kagan Perry Link Maurice Meisner Ngo Vinh Long Victor Nee James Peck (Jim Peck) Paul G. Pickowicz Elizabeth J. Perry Carl Riskin Moss Roberts Mark Selden Orville Schell Susan Shirk Marilyn B. Young Notes References and further reading Fabio Lanza, "Making Sense of "China" During the Cold War: Global Maoism and Asian Studies," in Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney and Fabio Lanza, ed., De-Centering