Interview with Benedict Anderson

On October 1, 2008, Benedict Anderson presented a talk at Columbia University in which he discussed his upcoming book, a biography of the Chinese-Indonesian journalist Kwee Thiam Tjing. Having found a book of Kwee’s writings in a second-hand bookshop in Indonesia in 1962, Anderson describes his surprise that no one could identify the pseudonymous author, who wrote what Anderson considers to be “the greatest piece of prose written in the first half of the 20th century by anybody in Indonesia.” For years after Kwee’s death, Anderson explains, details of the journalist’s life and work were forgotten. It was only recently that Anderson was himself able to write about the author, in the process considering the role of cosmopolitanism in the life of the colonial subject

Interpreting Indonesian politics : thirteen contributions to the debate /

"Publication no. 62."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet

Language, literature, and national consciousness

Recorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Panel, September 21, 1984.110 minutesPanel members discuss the interrelationship between language, literature and nationalism.1_8717tnjz1_j21c0bzu1_4gpgs1t