Mao Kao-wen (; 9 February 1936

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, Ningbo – 28 October 2019 Taipei) was a Taiwanese chemist, politician, and diplomat. He served as the president of

National Tsinghua University National Tsing Hua University (NTHU; ) is a public research university in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. National Tsing Hua University was first founded in Beijing. After the Chinese Civil War, the then-president of the university, Mei Yiqi, and other ...

from 1981 to 1987. He also was the Minister of Education of the

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from June 1987 to February 1993. Mao died on 28 October 2019 at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, aged 83.

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