Professor Tao Wenzhao is a renowned scholar on the history of China-US relations, an honorary academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and senior fellow of the Institute of American Studies, CASS. He served as the deputy director at the Institute from 1994 to 2003 and as secretary general of the Chinese Association of China-US HistoryStudies until 2012. He was born in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province in February 1943 and graduated from Department of Foreign Languages in Hangzhou University in 1964.
From 1982 to 1984, he studied the history of China-US relations in Georgetown University and Stanfordas a visiting scholar. From September to December 1993, he conducted research on China’s foreign relations during the war to resist Japanese aggression at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in University of London. From June to September, 2002, he was as a visiting professor in the Wilson Center in Washington.
Professor Tao has extensive publications, which includeThe China-Japan-U.S. Triangular Relationship and the Taiwan Question (1949-2010) (2021), A History of China-US Relations (1911-2000) (Three editions in 2016, 2007, 2004 respectively), China’s Foreign Relations During the War to Resist Japanese Aggression (co-author, 2015, 2009), American Policy Making Process for Post-Cold War China: The Role of US Think Tanks (co-author, 2014), Exploring the Secrets of China-US Relations (2014), Contemporary Studies of China-US Relations (co-author, 2012), American Policy Toward China After the End of the Cold War (ed. 2006),FRUS Documents on US China Policy (ed., 2005) (Chinese translation, Three Volumes), etc. He also published numerous journal articles and conference papers on American foreign policy and China-US relations.