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Cai Shaoqing (14 August 1933 – 30 November 2019) was a Chinese historian and professor at Nanjing University, who specialized in the history of Chinese secret societies.

Biography
Cai was born on 14 August 1933 in Hexing Township, Changshu (now part of Zhangjiagang) in Jiangsu province of the Republic of China. After graduating from Danan High School of Changshu, be was hired by the school as a teacher. He entered the Department of History of Peking University in 1956, and upon graduation in 1960, he became a teaching assistant to historian Shao Xunzheng 邵循正 while continuing his graduate studies at Peking University.