Jing-shen Tao

Jing-shen Tao
Born1933 (age 90–91)
Alma mater
SpouseChia-lin Pao Tao (鮑家麟)
Scientific career
FieldsChinese history
Institutions
Doctoral advisorTêng Ssu-yü
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTáo Jìnshēng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTô Chìn-seng
Tâi-lôTô 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.