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| Born | 1933 China |
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| Fields | Chinese history | ||||||
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| Doctoral advisor | Têng Ssu-yü | ||||||
| Spouse | Chia-lin Pao Tao (鮑家麟) | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Táo Jìnshēng |
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 Tao Xisheng 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.