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Mao Hanguang （1937- ) is a historian based in the Republic of China.

Life
In 1948, Mao traveled to Taiwan, where he received a bachelor's degree in history from National Taiwan University in 1960 and a master's degree from the Institute of Political Science at National Chengchi University in 1964. In the same year he entered the Institute of History and Language at Academia Sinica, where he received his doctorate in 1969. Mao was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of History, National Taiwan Normal University, an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of History, Tunghai University, a professor at the Department of History at National Chung Cheng University, and the president of WuFeng University. He was a visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1971 to 1973, and was a Visiting Scholar, East Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-1993. He advocates the innovation of historical research methods and is committed to the study of Chinese history through the theoretical approaches of contemporary sociology and political science. In 1994, Mao was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica, but was ultimately rejected after being accused of plagiarizing his dissertation.

Writings
"A Study of the Politics of the Shizu of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasties"

"Social Changes of the Tang Ruling Class"

"A Brief History of Medieval Chinese Society"

"On the Concept of Sages in Ancient Medieval China"

"The Social Basis of Authority in the Three Kingdom

"Shifts in Dynastic Military Authority and Its Effect on the Political Situation"