Geoff Wade
Alumni of ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
Then: BA Asian Studies 1978
Now: Working for the Asia Research Institute (ARI), Singapore
Dr Geoff Wade is a historian with interests in China-Southeast Asian historical interactions and comparative historiography. He graduated in Southeast Asian studies from ANU and then undertook Chinese studies in Sydney, Beijing and Nanjing, completing his PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 1994. Following a stint teaching history at Universiti Sains Malaysia, he then coordinated the China-ASEAN Project at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. Dr Wade has completted several projects at ARI, including publication preparation for a work entitled Southeast Asia in the Ming Reign Chronicles: 14th-17th centuries. His other projects are centred on comparative historiography and Asian historical expansions.
An historian of Ming China, Dr Wade was also currently involved in unraveling the theories of Gavin Menzies, the author of 1421: the Year China Discovered the World.
Read more:
Four Corners article (31/07/06)
The '1421 Myth Exposed'