Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005), was an AmericanSinologist and a professor of History at Princeton University for nearly 50 years.
After the war he enrolled in the University of Nanjing and graduated in 1948 with a degree in Chinese history. While the Chinese Communists took over Beijing in 1949, he was working as a language officer for the U.S. Embassy. Forced to leave China in 1950, he continued his studies in the United States at the University of Washington, earning a Ph.D. in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "T'ao Tsung-i and his Cho Keng Lu", a study of the 14th century writer Tao Zongyi (陶宗儀; 1321–c. 1412).
父陶煜官至上虞縣尹，叔陶復初是書畫家。元惠宗至正八年（1348年）三月，科舉失利，舉進士不第，八月避兵出遊浙東、浙西。1368年明朝推翻元朝後，定居雲間（今上海松江），開館授課。終身不仕。人稱「南村先生」。工書法，尤能小篆，勤於筆記，隨身攜帶筆墨，遇事即記。著有《書史會要》、《南村輟耕錄》25*、《說郛》、《南村詩集》等。
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