Geoffrey Philip Wade is a historian with interests in Sino-Southeast Asian historical interactions and comparative historiography. His basic degree is in Asian Studies from the Australian National University while his PhD (History) is from the University of Hong Kong. He also undertook Chinese studies in Sydney, Beijing and Nanjing. He has worked on a range of issues including early Islam in Southeast Asia, Chinese expansions, Asian commercial networks, Chinese textual references to Southeast Asia and the Cold War in Southeast Asia. His online database, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: An Open Access Resource (http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/), provides in English translation 3,000+ references to Southeast Asia as extracted from the Ming imperial annals.