Dr Wang Tao
BA (Yunnan) PhD (London)
Overview
The Department of the History of Art and Archaeology
(Senior Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology)
SOAS Food Studies Centre
(Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre)
Centre of Chinese Studies
(Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies)
- Name:
- Dr Wang Tao
- Email address:
- wt@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4463
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4479
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Brunei Gallery
- Office No:
- B403
Teaching
Students supervised
Courses Taught
Research
Archaeology of China; excavated texts of the Bronze Age in China; paleography, epigraphy and calligraphy; early Chinese language and religion.
Biography
Wang Tao studied at the Yunnan Teachers' University, Kunming and the Postgraduate School of the Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing, before coming to London in 1986. He obtained his PhD from SOAS in 1993 and has been teaching there ever since. His research interests and publications have focused on traditional and contemporary archaeological practice in China, oracle bone inscriptions and Chinese calligraphy.
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
- TV
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Wang, Tao and Yu, Liu (2007) Inscribed Early Chinese Bronzes in Foreign Collections. Shanhai cishu chubanshe.
Wang, Tao (2007) The Meiyingtang Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes. Azimuth Editions.
Wang, Tao (2007) Borrowed Landscpae: City, Landscape and Architecture in Early and Medieval China. Saffron Press.
Chapters in Books
Wang, Tao (2005) 'Liang Zhou zhiji de qingtong yishu - ji Jin hou mu diqu chutu de qingtongqi weili.' In: Jin hou mu diqu chutu qingtongqi guoji xueshu yantaohui. Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, pp. 384-410.
Wang, Tao (2005) 'Mingtang: The Hall of Luminosity.' In: Maréchal, C. and Yau, S., (eds.), Proceeding of the International Symposium The Visual World of China. Éditions Langages Croisés, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), pp. 137-170.
Wang, Tao (2003) 'Shangdai kaoguzhong de yanse (Colour in shang archaeology).' In: L.Boqian,, (ed.), Shang wenhua lunji. shang (Collected Studies of the Shang Culture). Wenwu chubanshe (Beijing), pp. 442-451.
Wang, Tao (2002) 'Liang Zhou zhiji de qing tong yishu - yi Jinhou mudi chutu de qingtongqi weili. [The Bronze Art of the Jin: Examples from Qucun].' In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Bronzes from the Cemetery of Marquises of Jin. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, pp. 384-410.
Wang, Tao (2001) 'Chuangjian zhongguo kaogu xuepai: jiantan xifang kaogujie dui Su Bingqi xueshu sixiang de renshi.' In: Bai, Su, (ed.), Su Bingqi yu dangdai zhongguo kaoguxue. Kexue chubanshe (Beijing), pp. 30-36.
Wang, Tao (2001) 'Oracle bones and Western sinology.' In: Shun-chiu, Yau and Maréchal, C, (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium in commemoration of the Centennial of the Oracle bone Inscriptions discovery. Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur lAsie Orientale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), pp. 91-116.
Wang, Tao (2001) 'Decoration and writing: evidence from Shang ritual bronzes.' In: Arts & Cultures. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 37-44.
Wang, Tao (2001) 'Borrowed Landscape: The Relationship Between Landscape and Urbanisation in Early and Medieval China.' In: Vanderfeesten, E. and Römgens, B., (eds.), The Global City and the Territory. History, Theory, Critique. Eindhoven University of Technology, pp. 52-75.
Wang, Tao (2000) 'Human, animal and hybrid: some observations on early Chinese art.' In: Masterpieces from Ancient China. Eskenazi (London), pp. 6-14.
Wang, Tao (2000) 'Discussions [and] Afterthoughts.' In: Allan, S and Williams, C, (eds.), The Guodian Laozi. The Society for the Study of Early China (Berkeley), 140,241-42.
Wang, Tao (1999) 'A City with Many Faces: Urban development in pre-modern China.' In: R, eds, (ed.), Exploring China''s Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art. Eastern Art Publishing (London), pp. 110-121.
Wang, Tao (1998) 'Yinren de yanse guannian yu wuxing shuo de xingcheng ji fazhan (Shang colour symbolism and the development of the wuxing theory).' In: S, eds, (ed.), Zhongguo gudai siwei moshi yu Yin Yang wuxing shuo tanyuan. Nanjing guji Chubanshe (Nanjing), pp. 261-294.
Articles
Wang, Tao (2007) 'Shang Ritual Animals: Colour and Meaning (part 1).' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (2). pp. 305-72.
Wang, Tao (2007) 'Shang Ritual Animals: Colour and Meaning (part 2).' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (3). pp. 539-567.
Wang, Tao (2007) 'The Shang Ritual Animal: Colour and Symbolism.'
Wang, Tao (2002) 'Liang Zhou zhiji de qingtong yishu - yi Jinhou mudi chutu de qingtongqi weili [The bronzes art of the Jin: examples from Qucun].' Proceedings of the Symposium on Bronzes from the Cemetery of Marquises of Jin . pp. 384-410.
Wang, Tao (2002) 'The blueprint for the Zhangshan king's graveyard.' East Asia Journal: Studies in Material Culture, Vol. 1 No. 1 . pp. 8-16.
Wang, Tao (2001) 'Chinas 'Dead Sea scrolls'.' Archaeology . pp. 62-63.
Wang, Tao (2000) 'Dui Xia Nai xiansheng de yinglun zhi yuan yiwen de jidian buchong.' Wenwu diandi . pp. 40-44.
Wang, Tao (1997) 'Su Bingqui and contemporary Chinese Archaeology.' Antiquity, 71 . pp. 31-39.
Wang, Tao (1996) 'Colour Terms in Shang oracle-bone inscriptions.' Bulletin of SOAS, LIX Pt 1 . pp. 63-101.
