Jing-shen Tao

Jing-shen Tao (Chinese: 陶晉生; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tô Chìn-seng; born 1933) is a Taiwanese-American 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).

Jing-shen Tao
Born	1933 (age 91–92) China
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BA, MA) Indiana University (PhD)
Spouse	Chia-lin Pao Tao (鮑家麟)
Scientific career
Fields	Chinese history
Institutions	Academia Sinica Soochow University University of Arizona Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis	The Jurched in Twelfth-century China: A Study of Sinification (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Têng Ssu-yü
Chinese name
Traditional 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

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).