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Steven Westley Mosher^[1] (born May 9, 1948^[2]) is an American social scientist, anti-abortion activist, neoconservative, anti-communist, and president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), which opposes population control and abortion. In the early 1990s, he was the director of the Claremont Institute's Asian Study Center, as well as a member of the US Commission on Broadcasting to China.^[3] He is the author of several books concerning China.

Life and career

Mosher was born in 1948 to working-class parents in Scotia, California, and spent his early years in Fresno, California. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1968, attended Nuclear Power School, and was selected for the Seaman to Admiral-21 program. He received a B.S. degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1971, graduated summa cum laude, and received a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. The following year he earned an M.S. in Biological Oceanography. For the next three years, he served with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. In early 1976, after his naval service, he enrolled in the Chinese language program of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, completing the two-year course of study in nine months. Awarded a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship, he was admitted to the doctoral program in anthropology at Stanford University, earning an M.A. in East Asian Studies in 1977, and an M.A. in Anthropology in 1978, and carrying out anthropological fieldwork on rural communities in China.

Visit to China and expulsion from Stanford

In 1979/80 Mosher became the first American scholar to conduct a full-length study scrutinizing a Communist Chinese Commune.^[3] He was given early access to China at the request of Jimmy Carter to Deng Xiaoping. He also traveled to Guizhou,^[4] then a somewhat remote and rarely visited part of China's southwest. Mosher is known in Chinese as Mao Sidi.^[2] (Chinese: 毛思迪; pinyin: Máosīdí),^[5] In 1981 Mosher was accused of bribing officials, briefly detained, and denied re-entry to China by the communist government, which considered that he had broken its laws and acted unethically.^[6]

Mosher was dismissed from Stanford University's Ph.D. program for "lack of candor" over his use of data on China^[1]^[7] after he published an article in Taiwan about his experiences in Guangdong.^[1] This expulsion occurred shortly before the publication of Broken Earth which revealed, among other things, that forced abortions were common in Guangdong as a part of the one-child policy. He also released photographs of Chinese women undergoing forced abortions that photographs showed the faces of the women, a possible violation of personal privacy according to standards of anthropological ethics.^[8]

Mosher's dismissal from the Ph.D. program became a cause célèbre in the academic world,^[9] as some said^[10] that Stanford acted under pressure from the Chinese government, which threatened to withhold permission for Stanford researchers to visit China. However, Stanford said that its concern was that Mosher's informants had been put in jeopardy and that this was contrary to anthropological ethics.^[11]

According to Mosher's book, Journey to the Forbidden China, he had a travel permit signed by the proper authority, Section Chief Liu of the Canton Public Security Office, to go into the "forbidden area" of Guizhou because it was en route to his destination of Sichuan. Mosher had given a copy of the travel permit to the American consulate before he met with the Chinese authorities to discuss the incident.

In the period after the Mosher controversy, it became much more difficult for American anthropologists to work in China. Many other anthropologists from the United States were limited to a three-week stay.^[12]

Activism

Mosher is president of the anti-abortion Population Research Institute. He successfully lobbied the George W. Bush administration to withhold funding from the United Nations Population Fund.^[13] Mosher is also a member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, an American neoconservative^[14] and anti-communist foreign policy interest group.^[15]

Personal life

Mosher married Maggie So, a Hong Kong Chinese woman of Guangdong descent; they divorced in 1981.^[16] Still in the early 1980s, he married Hwang Hui Wa, an assistant professor of English and Chinese at Fu Hsing Technical College, in Taiwan.^[16] Mosher, a convert to Catholicism whose spiritual mentor was the Population Research Institute founder, Paul Marx, lives in Virginia with his third wife, Vera. As of 2012, he has nine children.^[17]

Selected bibliography

Steven Mosher has authored the following books, as well as numerous articles and op-eds:

Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese. Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster (1984), ISBN 978-0-02-921720-7
Journey To The Forbidden China (1985)
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality (1990)
A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One Child Policy (1993)
Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World. Encounter Books (2002), ISBN 978-1-893554-08-5
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits (2008)
Growing Chinese Power—to What End (with Chuck DeVore). Human Events / Eagle Publishing, Inc. (2012) ^[18]
China Attacks. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform / Kindle Direct Publishing; 3rd edition (2013), ISBN 978-1-4819-7380-9
Bully of Asia: Why ′China's Dream′ Is the New Threat to World Order. Regnery Publishing (2017), ISBN 978-1-62157-696-9
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics. Regnery Publishing (2022), ISBN 1-68451-277-8 ISBN 978-1-68451-277-5
The Devil and Communist China: From Mao Down to Xi. TAN Books (2024), ISBN 978-1-5051-2650-1

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Turner, Wallace (February 26, 1983). "Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2020. The Chinese have cut off scholars' access to rural areas since they started criticizing the behavior of the graduate student, Steven Westley Mosher, 34 years old.
^ ^a ^b "Mosher, Steven W." LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
^ ^a ^b The Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China (Report) (Department of State Publication 9997 ed.). US State Department. September 1992. pp. Appendix 2. S 1.2:C 73/1.
^ Frank Gibney, book review in Los Angeles Times , 6 October 1985
^ "毛思迪 (Mosher, Steven W.)". Worldcat Identities. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
^ Harding, Harry (26 July 2000). A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972. Brookings Institution Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-8157-9147-8. Archived from the original on 2 September 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ Butterfield, Fox (1985-10-02). "Stanford President Upholds Doctoral Student's Expulsion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
^ Horowitz, Irving Louis, "Struggling for the Soul of Social science," article in Society, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 4–15
^ Nicolas Rothwell, publ. in Quadrant, Australia, 1984, p. 92
^ Antonia Finnane, "Daughters, Sons, and Human Rights in China", article in Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, ed. Anne-Marie Hilsdon, publ. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, London, 2000, p. 93
^ Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology, ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, publ. AltaMira Press, Oxford, p. 163
^ Stevan Harrell in Fieldwork Connections, ed. Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Lunzy Ma, publ. Univ. of Washington Press, 2007, p. 27
^ Weiss, Kenneth R. (July 22, 2012). "Fertility rates fall, but global population explosion goes on". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
^ Bronner, Stephen Eric (2005). Blood in the sand: imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-7168-7. OCLC 65562600.
^ Strong, Matthew (July 9, 2019). "US expert predicts China's Communist government will self-destruct. The end result will be the same whether China chooses trade reforms or isolation: Mosher". Taiwan News. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Turner, Wallace (February 26, 1983). "Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China". New York Times. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
^ Frawley Desmond, Joan (January 20, 2012). "Steve Mosher: A Vision of "Hell" Brought Him to the Church". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
^ Mosher, Steven W.; DeVore, Chuck (2012). "Growing Chinese Power—to What End." Human Events. Retrieved on March 13, 2022.

External links

Population Research Institute: Who We Are

[stanford-1] Turner, Wallace (February 26, 1983). "Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2020. The Chinese have cut off scholars' access to rural areas since they started criticizing the behavior of the graduate student, Steven Westley Mosher, 34 years old.

[LOC_Authority-2] "Mosher, Steven W." LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved July 14, 2015.

[The_Commission-3] The Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China (Report) (Department of State Publication 9997 ed.). US State Department. September 1992. pp. Appendix 2. S 1.2:C 73/1.

[4] Frank Gibney, book review in Los Angeles Times , 6 October 1985

[5] "毛思迪 (Mosher, Steven W.)". Worldcat Identities. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-07-14.

[hh-6] Harding, Harry (26 July 2000). A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972. Brookings Institution Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-8157-9147-8. Archived from the original on 2 September 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

[7] Butterfield, Fox (1985-10-02). "Stanford President Upholds Doctoral Student's Expulsion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2020-02-25.

[8] Horowitz, Irving Louis, "Struggling for the Soul of Social science," article in Society, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 4–15

[9] Nicolas Rothwell, publ. in Quadrant, Australia, 1984, p. 92

[10] Antonia Finnane, "Daughters, Sons, and Human Rights in China", article in Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, ed. Anne-Marie Hilsdon, publ. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, London, 2000, p. 93

[11] Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology, ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, publ. AltaMira Press, Oxford, p. 163

[12] Stevan Harrell in Fieldwork Connections, ed. Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Lunzy Ma, publ. Univ. of Washington Press, 2007, p. 27

[13] Weiss, Kenneth R. (July 22, 2012). "Fertility rates fall, but global population explosion goes on". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2012.

[14] Bronner, Stephen Eric (2005). Blood in the sand: imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-7168-7. OCLC 65562600.

[15] Strong, Matthew (July 9, 2019). "US expert predicts China's Communist government will self-destruct. The end result will be the same whether China chooses trade reforms or isolation: Mosher". Taiwan News. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

[NYT-16] Turner, Wallace (February 26, 1983). "Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China". New York Times. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.

[17] Frawley Desmond, Joan (January 20, 2012). "Steve Mosher: A Vision of "Hell" Brought Him to the Church". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2020.

[18] Mosher, Steven W.; DeVore, Chuck (2012). "Growing Chinese Power—to What End." Human Events. Retrieved on March 13, 2022.

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-'''Steven Westley Mosher'''<ref name=stanford>{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Wallace|title=Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/26/us/stanford-ousts-phd-candidate-over-his-use-of-data-on-china.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 29, 2020|date=February 26, 1983|quote=The Chinese have cut off scholars' access to rural areas since they started criticizing the behavior of the graduate student, Steven Westley Mosher, 34 years old.}}</ref> (born May 9, 1948<ref name="LOC_Authority">{{cite web |title=Mosher, Steven W. |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83003247.html |publisher=Library of Congress |work=LC Name Authority File |access-date=July 14, 2015}}</ref>) is an American [[social scientist]], [[anti-abortion]] activist, [[neoconservative]], [[anti-communist]], and president of the [[Population Research Institute]] (PRI), which opposes population control and abortion. In the early 1990s, he was the director of the [[Claremont Institute]]'s Asian Study Center, as well as a member of the US Commission on Broadcasting to China.<ref name="The Commission">{{cite report | authors= Staff | date= September 1992 | title= ''The Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China'' | publisher= US State Department | edition= Department of State Publication 9997 | pages= Appendix 2 |docket= S 1.2:C 73/1 }}</ref>
+'''Steven Westley Mosher'''<ref name=stanford>{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Wallace|title=Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/26/us/stanford-ousts-phd-candidate-over-his-use-of-data-on-china.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 29, 2020|date=February 26, 1983|quote=The Chinese have cut off scholars' access to rural areas since they started criticizing the behavior of the graduate student, Steven Westley Mosher, 34 years old.}}</ref> (born May 9, 1948<ref name="LOC_Authority">{{cite web |title=Mosher, Steven W. |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83003247.html |publisher=Library of Congress |work=LC Name Authority File |access-date=July 14, 2015}}</ref>) is an American [[social scientist]], [[anti-abortion]] activist, [[neoconservative]], [[anti-communist]], and president of the [[Population Research Institute (organization)|Population Research Institute]] (PRI), which opposes population control and abortion. In the early 1990s, he was the director of the [[Claremont Institute]]'s Asian Study Center, as well as a member of the US Commission on Broadcasting to China.<ref name="The Commission">{{cite report | date= September 1992 | title= ''The Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China'' | publisher= US State Department | edition= Department of State Publication 9997 | pages= Appendix 2 |docket= S 1.2:C 73/1 }}</ref> He is the author of several books concerning China.
-==Biography==
+==Life and career==
 {{BLP sources section|date=May 2014}}
-Mosher was born in 1948 to working class parents in [[Scotia, California]] and spent his early years in [[Fresno, California|Fresno]], California. He enlisted in the [[U.S. Navy]] in May 1968, and attended [[Nuclear Power School]] before being selected for the [[STA-21|Seaman to Admiral program]]. He received a B.S. degree in Biological Oceanography from the [[University of Washington]] in 1971, graduating ''summa cum laude'' and receiving a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. The following year he earned an M.S. in Biological Oceanography. For the next three years, he served with the [[United States Seventh Fleet|U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East]], achieving the rank of Lieutenant. In early 1976, following his naval service, he enrolled in the Chinese language program of the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]], completing the two-year course of study in 9&nbsp;months. Awarded a three-year [[National Science Foundation]] fellowship, he was admitted to the doctoral program in anthropology at [[Stanford University]], earning an M.A. in [[East Asian studies|East Asian Studies]] in 1977, and an M.A. in [[Anthropology]] in 1978, and carrying out anthropological fieldwork on rural communities in [[China]].
+Mosher was born in 1948 to working-class parents in [[Scotia, California|Scotia]], [[California]], and spent his early years in [[Fresno, California|Fresno]], California. He enlisted in the [[U.S. Navy]] in May 1968, attended [[Nuclear Power School]], and was selected for the [[STA-21|Seaman to Admiral-21]] program. He received a B.S. degree in Biological Oceanography from the [[University of Washington]] in 1971, graduated ''summa cum laude'', and received a commission as an  ensign in the U.S. Navy. The following year he earned an M.S. in Biological Oceanography. For the next three years, he served with the [[United States Seventh Fleet|U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East]], achieving the rank of Lieutenant. In early 1976, after his naval service, he enrolled in the Chinese language program of the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]], completing the two-year course of study in nine months. Awarded a three-year [[National Science Foundation]] fellowship, he was admitted to the doctoral program in anthropology at [[Stanford University]], earning an M.A. in [[East Asian studies|East Asian Studies]] in 1977, and an M.A. in [[Anthropology]] in 1978, and carrying out anthropological fieldwork on rural communities in [[China]].
 ===Visit to China and expulsion from Stanford===
-In 1979/80 Mosher became the first American scholar to conduct a full length study scrutinizing a [[People's commune|Communist Chinese Commune]].<ref name="The Commission" /> He was given early access to China at the request of [[Jimmy Carter]] to [[Deng Xiaoping]]. He also traveled to [[Guizhou]],<ref>Frank Gibney, book review in ''Los Angeles Times'' , 6 October 1985</ref> then a somewhat remote and rarely visited part of China's southwest. Mosher is known in Chinese as Mao Sidi.<ref name="LOC_Authority"/> ({{zh|c=毛思迪|p=Máosīdí}}),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-mao%20si%20di$mosher%20steven%20w/ |title=毛思迪 (Mosher, Steven W.) |website=Worldcat Identities |accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref> In 1981 Mosher was accused of inappropriate behavior like bribing officials, briefly detained and denied re-entry to China by the Chinese communist  government, which considered he had broken its laws and acted unethically.<ref name="hh">{{cite book |last1=Harding |first1=Harry |title=A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972 |date=26 July 2000 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |isbn=9780815791478 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=roTlcrU7PSgC&dq=Lisa+Wichser+Denver&pg=PA127 |access-date=10 June 2021}}</ref>
+In 1979/80 Mosher became the first American scholar to conduct a full-length study scrutinizing a [[People's commune|Communist Chinese Commune]].<ref name="The Commission" /> He was given early access to China at the request of [[Jimmy Carter]] to [[Deng Xiaoping]]. He also traveled to [[Guizhou]],<ref>Frank Gibney, book review in ''Los Angeles Times'' , 6 October 1985</ref> then a somewhat remote and rarely visited part of China's southwest. Mosher is known in Chinese as Mao Sidi.<ref name="LOC_Authority"/> ({{zh|c=毛思迪|p=Máosīdí}}),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-mao%20si%20di$mosher%20steven%20w/ |title=毛思迪 (Mosher, Steven W.) |website=Worldcat Identities |access-date=2015-07-14 |archive-date=2015-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715012636/http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-mao%20si%20di%24mosher%20steven%20w/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1981 Mosher was accused of bribing officials, briefly detained, and denied re-entry to China by the communist government, which considered that he had broken its laws and acted unethically.<ref name="hh">{{cite book |last1=Harding |first1=Harry |title=A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972 |date=26 July 2000 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |isbn=978-0-8157-9147-8 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=roTlcrU7PSgC&dq=Lisa+Wichser+Denver&pg=PA127 |access-date=10 June 2021 |archive-date=2 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902181608/https://books.google.com/books?id=roTlcrU7PSgC&dq=Lisa+Wichser+Denver&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q=Lisa%20Wichser%20Denver&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Mosher was dismissed from [[Stanford University]]'s Ph.D. program for "lack of candor" over his use of data on China<ref name=stanford/><ref>{{Cite news|last=Butterfield|first=Fox|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/us/stanford-president-upholds-doctoral-student-s-expulsion.html|title=Stanford President Upholds Doctoral Student's Expulsion|date=1985-10-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2024-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902181609/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/us/stanford-president-upholds-doctoral-student-s-expulsion.html|url-status=live}}</ref> after he published an article in Taiwan about his experiences in [[Guangdong]].<ref name=stanford/> This expulsion occurred shortly before the publication of ''Broken Earth'' which revealed, among other things, that [[forced abortion]]s were common in Guangdong as a part of the [[one-child policy]]. He also released photographs of Chinese women undergoing forced abortions that photographs showed the faces of the women, a possible violation of personal privacy according to standards of anthropological ethics.<ref>Horowitz, Irving Louis, "Struggling for the Soul of Social science," article in ''Society'', Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 4–15</ref>
-Mosher was dismissed from [[Stanford University]]'s Ph.D program for 'lack of candor' over his use of data on China<ref name=stanford/><ref>{{Cite news|last=Butterfield|first=Fox|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/us/stanford-president-upholds-doctoral-student-s-expulsion.html|title=Stanford President Upholds Doctoral Student's Expulsion|date=1985-10-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> after he published an article in Taiwan about his experiences in [[Guangdong]].{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} This expulsion occurred shortly before the publication of ''Broken Earth''. The Chinese government was challenged by the contents of the book, which revealed among other things that [[forced abortion]]s were common in that part of China as a part of the one-child policy. He also released photographs of Chinese women undergoing forced abortions with their faces exposed, a possible violation of personal privacy, according to standards of anthropological ethics.<ref>Horowitz, Irving Louis, "Struggling for the Soul of Social science," article in ''Society'', Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 4–15</ref> Mosher's dismissal from the Ph.D program became a ''[[cause célèbre]]'' in the academic world,<ref>[[Nicolas Rothwell]], publ. in ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'', Australia, 1984, p. 92</ref> for it was said<ref>[[Antonia Finnane]], "Daughters, Sons, and Human Rights in China", article in ''Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives'', ed. Anne-Marie Hilsdon, publ. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, London, 2000, p. 93</ref> that Stanford acted under pressure from the Chinese government, which threatened to withhold permission for future Stanford researchers to visit China. However, Stanford said that its concern was that Mosher's informants had been put in jeopardy and that this was contrary to anthropological ethics.<ref>''Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology'', ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, publ. AltaMira Press, Oxford, p. 163</ref>
+Mosher's dismissal from the Ph.D. program became a ''[[cause célèbre]]'' in the academic world,<ref>[[Nicolas Rothwell]], publ. in ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'', Australia, 1984, p. 92</ref> as some said<ref>[[Antonia Finnane]], "Daughters, Sons, and Human Rights in China", article in ''Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives'', ed. Anne-Marie Hilsdon, publ. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, London, 2000, p. 93</ref> that Stanford acted under pressure from the Chinese government, which threatened to withhold permission for Stanford researchers to visit China. However, Stanford said that its concern was that Mosher's informants had been put in jeopardy and that this was contrary to anthropological ethics.<ref>''Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology'', ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, publ. AltaMira Press, Oxford, p. 163</ref>
-According to Mosher's book, ''Journey to the Forbidden China'', he had a travel permit signed by the proper authority (Section Chief Liu of the Canton Public Security Office) to go into the "forbidden area" of Guizhou because it was en route to his destination of [[Sichuan]]. Mosher gave a copy of the travel permit to the American Consulate before he met with the Chinese authorities to discuss the incident.
+According to Mosher's book, ''Journey to the Forbidden China'', he had a travel permit signed by the proper authority, Section Chief Liu of the Canton Public Security Office, to go into the "forbidden area" of Guizhou because it was en route to his destination of [[Sichuan]]. Mosher had given a copy of the travel permit to the American consulate before he met with the Chinese authorities to discuss the incident.
-In the period after the Mosher controversy, it became much more difficult for American anthropologists to work in China. Many other anthropologists from the United States were limited to three weeks' stay.<ref>Stevan Harrell in ''Fieldwork Connections'', ed. Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Lunzy Ma, publ. Univ. of Washington Press, 2007, p. 27</ref>
+In the period after the Mosher controversy, it became much more difficult for American anthropologists to work in China. Many other anthropologists from the United States were limited to a three-week stay.<ref>Stevan Harrell in ''Fieldwork Connections'', ed. Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Lunzy Ma, publ. Univ. of Washington Press, 2007, p. 27</ref>
 ===Activism===
-According to the [[Los Angeles Times]], Mosher successfully lobbied the [[George W. Bush]] administration to withhold $34 to $40&nbsp;million per year for seven years from the [[United Nations Population Fund]], the largest international donor to contraceptive and family planning programs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Kenneth R.|title=Fertility rates fall, but global population explosion goes on|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/population/la-fg-population-matters1-20120722-html,0,7213271.htmlstory|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 22, 2012}}</ref> Mosher is president of the [[Population Research Institute]] and is also a member of the [[Committee on the Present Danger]]: [[China]] that is an American [[neoconservative]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bronner |first=Stephen Eric |title=Blood in the sand : imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy |date=2005 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-7168-7 |location=Lexington, Ky. |oclc=65562600}}</ref> and [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[foreign policy interest group]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Strong|first=Matthew|title=US expert predicts China's Communist government will self-destruct. The end result will be the same whether China chooses trade reforms or isolation: Mosher|url=http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3741508|newspaper=[[Taiwan News]]|date=July 9, 2019|access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref>
+Mosher is president of the anti-abortion [[Population Research Institute (organization)|Population Research Institute]]. He successfully lobbied the [[George W. Bush]] administration to withhold funding from the [[United Nations Population Fund]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Kenneth R.|title=Fertility rates fall, but global population explosion goes on|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/population/la-fg-population-matters1-20120722-html,0,7213271.htmlstory|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 22, 2012|access-date=August 5, 2012|archive-date=March 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328221959/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/population/la-fg-population-matters1-20120722-html,0,7213271.htmlstory|url-status=live}}</ref> Mosher is also a member of the [[Committee on the Present Danger: China]], an American [[neoconservative]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bronner |first=Stephen Eric |title=Blood in the sand: imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy |date=2005 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-7168-7 |location=Lexington, Ky. |oclc=65562600}}</ref> and anti-communist [[foreign policy interest group]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Strong|first=Matthew|title=US expert predicts China's Communist government will self-destruct. The end result will be the same whether China chooses trade reforms or isolation: Mosher|url=http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3741508|newspaper=[[Taiwan News]]|date=July 9, 2019|access-date=April 28, 2020|archive-date=August 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829144235/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3741508|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ===Personal life===
-Mosher married Maggie So, a Hong Kong Chinese of Guangdong descent and they divorced in 1981.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Wallace|title=Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/26/us/stanford-ousts-phd-candidate-over-his-use-of-data-on-china.html|website=New York Times|accessdate=June 3, 2014|date=February 26, 1983}}</ref> Still in the early 1980s, he married Hwang Hui Wa, an assistant professor of English and Chinese at Fu Hsing Technical College in Taiwan.<ref name="NYT" /> Mosher, a convert to Roman Catholicism whose spiritual mentor was PRI founder [[Paul Marx (monk)]], lives in Virginia with his third wife Vera and as of 2012 he has nine children.<ref>{{cite news|last=Frawley Desmond|first=Joan|title=Steve Mosher: A Vision of "Hell" Brought Him to the Church|url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/steve-mosher-a-vision-of-hell-brought-me-to-the-church|newspaper=[[National Catholic Register]]|date=January 20, 2012}} Retrieved April 29, 2020.</ref>
+Mosher married Maggie So, a [[Hong Kong]] Chinese woman of [[Guangdong]] descent; they divorced in 1981.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Wallace|title=Stanford ousts Ph.D. candidate over his use of data on China|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/26/us/stanford-ousts-phd-candidate-over-his-use-of-data-on-china.html|website=New York Times|access-date=June 3, 2014|date=February 26, 1983|archive-date=June 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606220017/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/26/us/stanford-ousts-phd-candidate-over-his-use-of-data-on-china.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Still in the early 1980s, he married Hwang Hui Wa, an assistant professor of English and Chinese at Fu Hsing Technical College, in [[Taiwan]].<ref name="NYT" /> Mosher, a convert to [[Catholicism]] whose spiritual mentor was the [[Population Research Institute (organization)|Population Research Institute]] founder, [[Paul Marx (monk)| Paul Marx]], lives in Virginia with his third wife, Vera. As of 2012, he has nine children.<ref>{{cite news|last=Frawley Desmond|first=Joan|title=Steve Mosher: A Vision of "Hell" Brought Him to the Church|url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/steve-mosher-a-vision-of-hell-brought-me-to-the-church|newspaper=[[National Catholic Register]]|date=January 20, 2012|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220092033/http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/steve-mosher-a-vision-of-hell-brought-me-to-the-church|url-status=live}} Retrieved April 29, 2020.</ref>
 ==Selected bibliography==
-Steven Mosher has authored the following books as well as numerous articles and op-eds:
+Steven Mosher has authored the following books, as well as numerous articles and op-eds:
-*''Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese''. [[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] (1984), {{ISBN|9780029217207}}
+*''Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese''. [[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] imprint of [[Simon & Schuster]]  (1984), {{ISBN|978-0-02-921720-7}}
 *''[[Journey To The Forbidden China]]'' (1985)
 *''[[China Misperceived| China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality]]'' (1990)
 *''[[A Mother's Ordeal| A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One Child Policy]]'' (1993)
-*''Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World''. [[Encounter Books]] (2002), {{ISBN|9781893554085}}
+*''Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World''. [[Encounter Books]] (2002), {{ISBN|978-1-893554-08-5}}
 *''[[Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits]]'' (2008)
-*''Growing Chinese Power—to What End'' (with [[Chuck DeVore]]). [[Human Events]]/ Eagle Publishing, Inc. (2012) <ref>Mosher, Steven W.; DeVore, Chuck (2012). "[https://www.pop.org/files/pub/doc/growing-chinese-power-special-report.pdf ''Growing Chinese Power—to What End'']." ''[[Human Events]]''. Retrieved on March 13, 2022.</ref>
+*''Growing Chinese Power—to What End'' (with [[Chuck DeVore]]). [[Human Events]] / Eagle Publishing, Inc. (2012) <ref>Mosher, Steven W.; DeVore, Chuck (2012). "[https://www.pop.org/files/pub/doc/growing-chinese-power-special-report.pdf ''Growing Chinese Power—to What End'']." ''[[Human Events]]''. Retrieved on March 13, 2022.</ref>
-*''China Attacks''. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 3rd edition (2013), {{ISBN|978-1481973809}}
+*''China Attacks''. [[CreateSpace]] Independent Publishing Platform / [[Kindle Direct Publishing]]; 3rd edition (2013), {{ISBN|978-1-4819-7380-9}}
-*''Bully of Asia: Why ′China's Dream′ Is the New Threat to World Order''. [[Regnery Publishing]] (2017), {{ISBN|978-1621576969}}
+*''Bully of Asia: Why ′China's Dream′ Is the New Threat to World Order''. [[Regnery Publishing]] (2017), {{ISBN|978-1-62157-696-9}}
+*''The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics''. Regnery Publishing (2022), {{ISBN|1-68451-277-8}} {{ISBN|978-1-68451-277-5}}
+*''The Devil and Communist China: From Mao Down to Xi''. [[TAN Books]] (2024), {{ISBN|978-1-5051-2650-1}}
 ==References==
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-* [http://www.pop.org/about/our-president-803 Population Research Institute: Our President]
+* [http://www.pop.org/about-home/ Population Research Institute: Who We Are]
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