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 he brought together his later works in prose and verse in 12 chüan, under the title 巢民詩文集 Ch'ao-min shih wên chi (or 水繪庵集 Shui-hui an chi). His library, Jan-hsiang ko 染香閣, caught fire in 1679 and with it were lost, besides valuable books, the family collection of many objects of art. Four years after his death, three of his short articles, one on tea, another in praise of the bronze incense burners of the Hsüan-tê reign period (1426–1436), and a third on the orchid flower, appeared in 1697 in the first installment of the Chao-tai ts'ung-shu(see under ).

Mao Hsiang had a brother, Mao Pao 冒褒, and two sons, Mao Chia-sui 冒嘉穗 (also named 禾書, T. 穀梁 H. 珠山, b. 1635) and Mao Tan-shu 冒丹書 , who were all known as poets. One of his descendants, Mao Kuang-shêng 冒廣生, collected most of the extant works by members of the Mao family, including those of Mao Hsiang and other relatives, and printed them in installments during the years 1911 to 1917 under the title 冒氏叢書 Mao-shih ts'ung-shu.

[Mao Kuang-shêng, 冒巢民先生年譜 Mao Ch'ao-min Hsien-shêng nien-p'u in Mao-shih ts'ung-shu; 1/506/5a; 3/478/21a; 4/126/1a; 20/1/00; New China Review II, p. 9.]

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MAO I 毛扆, Aug. 13, 1640–after 1710, scholar, native of Ch'ang-shu, Kiangsu, was the youngest son of. He inherited the famous library known as Chi-ku-ko (see under his father) and continued the printing business which his father began in 1628. He was also interested in collecting rare texts and writing bibliographical notes, which were much prized by later collectors. Sometime after 1689 he made an inventory of about 500 titles of rare books, including many manuscript facsimiles known as ying-Sung-ch'ao 影宋鈔, which it is said he intended to sell to. This list, with prices in taels attached, was printed in 1800 in the first installment of the Shih-li-chü Huang-shih ts'ung-shu of. Some of the books which he collected bore seals reading 西河季子之印 Hsi-ho chi-tzŭ chih-yin or 斧季手校 Fu-chi shou-chiao. borrowed a number of rare books from Mao I in 1710, and Ho's notes on these items make it certain that Mao was still living at that time. A considerable part of his collection was sold to.

[義門先生集 I-men hsien-shêng chi 9/9a, 12b; see bibliography under ; Yeh Tê-hui, Shu-lin ch'ing-hua (for char. see bibl. under ); Yang Li-ch'êng, 中國藏書家考略 Chung-kuo ts'ang-shu chia k'ao lüeh (1929) p. 7b.]

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MAO Pin 毛霦, d. 1726, age 76 (sui), recluse and scholar, was a native of Yeh-hsien (Lai-chou), Shantung. He attracted the attention of a district magistrate when competing at the age of thirteen (sui) in a literary examination that took place in 1663. He spent his life in poverty and seclusion, leaving one short work, entitled 平叛記 Ping-p'an chi, with a preface dated January 1712. This work was first published by his son in 1716 and was republished about 1928 in the collection Yin-li tsai-ssŭ t'ang ts'ung-shu (see under ). It describes the siege of Lai-chou by, relating events in chronological order from January 19, 1632 to May 20, 1633. The Ssŭ-k'u Catalogue (see under ) erroneously calls Mao an eyewitness of the events described; as a matter of fact they took place some twenty years before his birth.

[Yeh-hsien chih (1761), 4/65b, 3/13a; Ssŭ-k'u, 54/6b.]

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MAO Wên-lung 毛文龍, Feb. 10, 1576–1629, July 24, Ming general, was a native of Hangchow, Chekiang. In his youth he was fond of sports and achieved fame as a horse man and bowman. While in Peking in 1605 he was introduced by his uncle to a brigade general stationed in Liaotung, and received a commission as lieutenant in the army. In 1621 sent him to the east of the Liao river as a drill major. After the fall of Shên-yang and Liao-yang in May of that year he escaped by ship to Korea where he organized a fighting force including ninety-seven dare-devils (see under ) which on September 1, 1621 performed the spectacular feat of recapturing Chên-chiang on the Yalu River from the Manchus. This success was seized on by Wang Hua-chên to justify his own policy of aggression, although criticized it as ill-timed and worthless. In December of the same year a Manchu force 567