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."-Hyung-Gu Lynn, Pacific Affairs (September 2011) "These innovative essays compel us to reevaluate our understanding of the Cold War as a predominantly political and military event. Their consideration of a broad range of cultural forms-from literature and film to glossy magazines and bodybuilding-remind us that the Cold War's influence on culture and its producers was as varied and complex as the Southeast Asian countries it touched. Lively and insightful, this rich collection is a valuable contribution to both Cold War studies and the modern histories of Southeast Asia."-Richard A. Ruth, United States Naval Academy, author of In Buddha's Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War
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