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A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

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An intellectual memoir by the writer of the acclaimed Imagined Communities

Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, used to be educated in England and in any case found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself within the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He used to be expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be at the back of the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed as much as 1,000,000 communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization.

In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations at the back of his very best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism.

Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia by myself suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds old and young.

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