Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Cornell. He served as director of the Modern Indonesia Program and then acted as the Aaron L. This study, in which Anderson argues that “discontented army officers, rather than communists, were responsible for coup” and questions the military government’s claims to legitimacy ( Language 8) became known as the “Cornell Paper” in 1966, and it caused Anderson to be barred from Indonesia indeterminately.Īfter his exile, Anderson spent a few years in Thailand, and then taught at Cornell University. After the 1965 communist coup and massacres, Anderson published three studies, one of which was an outline of the coup. As part of his doctoral research, Anderson went to Jakarta, Indonesia in 1961. under the guidance of George Kahin and Claire Holt. Working part-time as a teaching assistant in the department of politics, Anderson worked on his Ph.D. There, he developed an immense interest in Asian politics and later enrolled in Cornell University’s Indonesian studies program. in classics from Cambridge University, England in 1957. In 1941, the Anderson family moved to California, where Benedict received his initial education.
Veronica was English and came from a family of conventional businessmen, judges, and policemen. James was an officer in the Imperial Maritime Customs in China and according to his son, a Sinophile he was also of mixed Irish and Anglo-Irish descent, and his family had been active in Irish nationalist movements (see Yeats and Postcolonialism). Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson was born on Augin Kunming, China to James O’Gorman and Veronica Beatrice Mary Anderson.
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