Jing-shen Tao (; born 1933) is a Taiwanese-American professor emeritus of Chinese history at

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and Correspondence Research Fellow at

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who specializes in medieval Chinese/Inner Asian history, particularly the

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, Liao dynasty, and

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. His father was a major scholar-politician during

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. Jing-shen Tao was born in mainland China and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Taiwanese author

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is his nephew.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China: A Study of Sinicization'' (Seattle:

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, 1976) * ''Two Sons of Heaven: Studies of Sung-Liao Relations'' (Tucson:

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, 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

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