Steven W. Mosher

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Steven W. Mosher is a China expert who speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese. He is the president of the Population Research Institute in Virginia. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as "Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese" also A Mother's Ordeal and Hegemon, as well as being the co-author of China Attacks. He was expelled from Stanford University as his book "Broken Earth" caused so much controversy between China's Government and the rest of the nations.^{[citation needed]} Stanford was put in an awkward situation as he violated China's laws on where he could and could not go (he went into provinces he wasn't authorized to). He also released photographs of Chinese women having abortions with their faces exposed, a violation of informant privacy in anthropological ethics. He was expelled from Standford University because he donated a truck to a village in Guangdong using money that he was supposed to use for photography equipment. This was considered "misconduct in research".^{[citation needed]}

In 1979 Steven W. Mosher became the first American social scientist invitied to do research in post-revolutionary rural China, and also the first to be asked to leave when he angered the communist government.