Ooi Keat Gin is professor-designate of the modern history of Brunei/Borneo of the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, and a visiting professor of the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea. His latest publications include Borneo in the Cold War, 1950-1990 (2020), Malaysia and the Cold War Era (edited, 2020), Borneo and Sulawesi: Indigenous Peoples, Empires and Area Studies (edited, 2020), and Brunei - History, Islam, Society, and Contemporary Issues (edited, 2016), also published by Routledge. He is also a co-author with Victor T. King of The Handbook of Southeast Asian Studies - Pioneers and Critical Thinkers (forthcoming). Victor T. King is a professor of Borneo studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and emeritus professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK. He is co-editor of five recent Routledge publications, a four-volume reader, Tourism in East and Southeast Asia (2018), Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-determination (2018), Tourism in South- East Asia (reprint with a new Preface) (2019), Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam (2021) and Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam (2021), and co-editor of the Routledge book series The Modern Anthropology of South East Asia.
