Jing-shen Tao

Jing-shen Tao (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 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).