Jing-shen Tao

American history professor (born 1933)

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National Taiwan University
Indiana University (Ph.D. 1967)

SpouseChia-lin Pao Tao (鮑家麟)Scientific careerFieldsChinese historyInstitutions

Academia Sinica
Soochow University
University of Arizona
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Doctoral advisorTêng Ssu-yü Chinese nameTraditional Chinese陶晉生Simplified Chinese陶晋生

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Táo Jìnshēng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Tô Chìn-seng
Tâi-lô	Tô Tsìn-sing

Jing-shen Tao (Chinese: 陶晉生; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tô Chìn-seng; born 1933) is professor emeritus of Chinese history at University of Arizona and Correspondence Research Fellow at Academia Sinica who specializes in medieval Chinese/Inner Asian history, particularly the Song dynasty, Liao dynasty, and Jin dynasty (1115–1234).

His father T'ao Hsi-sheng [zh] was a major scholar-politician during Republic of China (1912–49). Jing-shen Tao was born in mainland China and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Taiwanese author Kuo Cheng is his nephew.

Selected bibliography

The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China: A Study of Sinicization (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976)
Two Sons of Heaven: Studies of Sung-Liao Relations (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988).
Excursions in Chinese Culture: Festschrift in Honor of William R. Schultz, co-authored with Marie Chan and Chia-lin Pao Tao (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002).