Tao Wenzhao, born in China’s Zhejiang Province in February 1943, is an Honorary Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and a senior fellow at the Institute of American Studies at CASS. He served as associate director of the Institute and as secretary-general of the Chinese Association for American Studies from 1994 to 2003.
From October 1982 to October 1984, Professor Tao Wenzhao was a government-sponsored visiting scholar in the United States, where he conducted research on China–U.S. relations at Georgetown University, Stanford University, and the U.S. National Archives. In the second half of 1993, supported by the K.C. Wong Education Foundation, he carried out research on China’s foreign relations during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the Public Record Office (the National Archives) of the United Kingdom. From September 1998 to February 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the American Studies Center of the University of Hong Kong, and in the summer of 2002, he did research as a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the United States.
Professor Tao’s research focuses on China’s modern foreign relations, U.S. foreign policy, and China-U.S. relations. His major independent works include A History of China-U.S. Relations (1784-2016) (four volumes, 2000, 2016, 2023), China and America-Destined for Conflict? (2017, 2020), U.S.-Russia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (1991-2016) (2024), and The Evolution of American Conservatism Since the New Deal (two volumes) (2023). He has also served as chief editor of U.S. Policy Toward China After the Cold War (2006), U.S. Policy Toward China After the Cold War: The Role of Think Tanks (2014, 2018), Collected Documents on U.S. Policy Toward China, 1949-1972 (three volumes) (2003), China’s Foreign Relations During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (co-authored in 2015), etc.