Jing-shen Tao | |||||||||
Birth Place: | China | ||||||||
Fields: | Chinese history | ||||||||
Doctoral Advisor: | Têng Ssu-yü | ||||||||
Spouse: | Chia-lin Pao Tao (鮑家麟) | ||||||||
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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 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.