A LIFE BEYOND BOUNDARIES/ A MEMOIR

Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suhartos Indone sia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a mill ion communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Ph ilippines,...[Read more]