Abstract
Asian-Americans were greatly affected by the events and movements of the 1960s and early '70s: Black nationalism, Feminism, and the Vietnam War. Vietnam was particularly a catalyst because here again was a war in which Asian-Americans were fighting both with and against other Asians, as they had done in World War II and the Korean Conflict. The daily television news broadcasts, showing Asians starving, escaping from burning homes, wandering as refugees, and dying in mud, revolutionized this restrained, reticent, formerly silent minority. Chinese-Americans then began to turn away from the philosophy of Lao Tze, which had served them in good stead for generations and which Dr. Lin Yu-tang recognized and expressed in the following passage from his novel, Chinatown Family (1948):
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