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.
[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.
[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.
[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.