Wang Tao

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 - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - 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.

His research topics are amongst others the Archaeology of China, excavated texts of the Bronze Age in China, paleography, epigraphy and calligraphy and early Chinese language and religion.