Beenedict Anderson is remembered as a polyglot, political scientist, and Southeast Asian historian. Anderson was of Anglo-Irish descent, born in Kunming, China. He lived and worked predominantly in the United States through the 1970s and 1980s. World events heavily influenced his politics and ideologies. For example, the Suez Crisis (1956) influenced his later work as a Marxist and anticolonial thinker, and the Indonesian Coup in September 1965 led to his co-authoring the “Cornell Paper,” resulting in his being banned from Indonesia. During the Vietnam War, Anderson began to study relationships between language and power alongside the origins of nationalism, resulting in his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983). Since then, he has become a part of critical and theoretical discussions across various academic disciplines, from anthropology and history to literary and cultural studies.