Jing-shen Tao
American history professor (born 1933)
- National Taiwan University
- Indiana University (Ph.D. 1967)
- Academia Sinica
- Soochow University
- University of Arizona
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
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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).
References
- "Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica". Ihp.sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 2017-06-05.