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Asian Studies and the American Colleges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

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On the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Association for Asian Studies, it is appropriate that we should pause to analyze both the role which Asian studies should play in our institutions of higher learning and also the responsibilities which we as individuals and as a learned society have in the challenge which confronts contemporary American education. On April 2, 1948, about two hundred specialists on Asia gathered at Columbia University to complete the organization of a new scholarly, non-political, non-profit, professional association and to elect Dr. Arthur W. Hummel as the first President of the Far Eastern Association. In this decade, we have been singularly fortunate in the widespread interest and support which we have received. Fortunately, other newly established groups having scholarly interest in Asia have joined us, and last year the name was officially changed to signify better the area of our interest. As the Association of Asian Studies, we have a bright future ahead if we are willing to rise to the challenge that is before us.

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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958

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1 Dr. Kenneth S. Latourette has given an account of these developments in his presidential address in Washington in 1955. See his “Far Eastern Studies in Retrospect and Prospect,” FEQ, XV (Nov. 1955)Google Scholar; also “The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.: A Brief History,” JAS, XVI (Aug. 1957), 679680Google Scholar; and “The First Ten Years of the Association for Asian Studies, 1948–58,” XVII (Aug. 1958), 657–668.

2 Fund for Advancement of Education, ”The Graduate School Today and Tomorrow,” p. 24.

3 Ward Morehouse, ”Asian Studies in Undergraduate Education” (New York: Asia Society, rev. 1957) (mimeo., 29 pp.).