Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World

“[W]hat Rizal was doing in the late 1880s, Anderson was also doing a century later in the 1990s. Not content with library or archival research, Anderson, as he did in Indonesia and Thailand, immersed himself in everyday Philippine life in order to understand the country and its people afresh.”—Ambeth Ocampo.

Printed in 2004.