Tony Day is a Visiting Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Previously, he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Maya H. T. Liem co-headied, with contributor Jennifer Lindsay, an international research project on Indonesian cultural history from 1950–65, and is co-editor of that project's volume of essays. A graduate of Leiden University's Department of Cultures and Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania, her PhD thesis, "The Turning Wheel of Time: Modernity and Writing Identity in Bali 1900–1970," focused on the literary history of Bali between 1900–70. Since 1994 she has been translating Indonesian novels into Dutch.

Cultures at War balances the study of popular and high culture with the larger historical contexts with thoroughness and clarity. The contributors examine the interplay of Cold War ideological conflicts with aspirations for non-alignment, structural bipolarity with individual pluralism, and post-colonial legacies with nationalist aspirations as manifested in various forms of art, literature, theatre, film and other forms of culture in Southeast Asia.... The volume will be a touchstone work for future research on the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. It is an important and stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Cold War histories and Southeast Asian Studies.(Pacific Affairs) This book has made a significant contribution and must be taken seriously by anybody who wants to [understand how much the Cold War has shaped the region politically and culturally].(Bijdragen) Cultures at War signals the beginning of a new cold war historiography. This is a seminal work, which pulls together the contributions of area studies' regional perspectives and cultural studies' ideological critique. the overall picture that emerges of regional politics is definitely illuminating. For scholars of area studies, the book highlights the connections between culture and politics, and the discursive complexity of cold-war politics.(Wacana)

Tony Day is a Visiting Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Previously, he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Maya H. T. Liem co-headied, with contributor Jennifer Lindsay, an international research project on Indonesian cultural history from 1950–65, and is co-editor of that project's volume of essays. A graduate of Leiden University's Department of Cultures and Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania, her PhD thesis, "The Turning Wheel of Time: Modernity and Writing Identity in Bali 1900–1970," focused on the literary history of Bali between 1900–70. Since 1994 she has been translating Indonesian novels into Dutch.

Cultures at War balances the study of popular and high culture with the larger historical contexts with thoroughness and clarity. The contributors examine the interplay of Cold War ideological conflicts with aspirations for non-alignment, structural bipolarity with individual pluralism, and post-colonial legacies with nationalist aspirations as manifested in various forms of art, literature, theatre, film and other forms of culture in Southeast Asia.... The volume will be a touchstone work for future research on the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. It is an important and stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Cold War histories and Southeast Asian Studies.(Pacific Affairs) This book has made a significant contribution and must be taken seriously by anybody who wants to [understand how much the Cold War has shaped the region politically and culturally].(Bijdragen) Cultures at War signals the beginning of a new cold war historiography. This is a seminal work, which pulls together the contributions of area studies' regional perspectives and cultural studies' ideological critique. the overall picture that emerges of regional politics is definitely illuminating. For scholars of area studies, the book highlights the connections between culture and politics, and the discursive complexity of cold-war politics.(Wacana)

Tony Day is a Visiting Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Previously, he taught Southeast Asian and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Maya H. T. Liem co-headied, with contributor Jennifer Lindsay, an international research project on Indonesian cultural history from 1950–65, and is co-editor of that project's volume of essays. A graduate of Leiden University's Department of Cultures and Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania, her PhD thesis, "The Turning Wheel of Time: Modernity and Writing Identity in Bali 1900–1970," focused on the literary history of Bali between 1900–70. Since 1994 she has been translating Indonesian novels into Dutch.

Cultures at War balances the study of popular and high culture with the larger historical contexts with thoroughness and clarity. The contributors examine the interplay of Cold War ideological conflicts with aspirations for non-alignment, structural bipolarity with individual pluralism, and post-colonial legacies with nationalist aspirations as manifested in various forms of art, literature, theatre, film and other forms of culture in Southeast Asia.... The volume will be a touchstone work for future research on the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. It is an important and stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Cold War histories and Southeast Asian Studies.(Pacific Affairs) This book has made a significant contribution and must be taken seriously by anybody who wants to [understand how much the Cold War has shaped the region politically and culturally].(Bijdragen) Cultures at War signals the beginning of a new cold war historiography. This is a seminal work, which pulls together the contributions of area studies' regional perspectives and cultural studies' ideological critique. the overall picture that emerges of regional politics is definitely illuminating. For scholars of area studies, the book highlights the connections between culture and politics, and the discursive complexity of cold-war politics.(Wacana)