Wáng Mó 王謨 (1732–1817), zì Rénpǔ 仁浦, native of Jīnxī 金溪, Jiāngxī. Passed the jìnshì 進士 examination in 1778 (Qiánlóng 43). Known primarily as an evidential (kǎojù 考據) scholar specialising in the recovery (jíyì 輯佚) and collation of lost or fragmentary ancient texts. He served as an administrator at the Jiànchāng 建昌 prefectural school in Jiāngxī, where his preface to the Hàn Wèi yíshū chāo 漢魏遺書鈔 (published 1798, Jiāqìng 3) was written.
His major compilation projects include: the Hàn Táng dìlǐ shūchāo 漢唐地理書抄 (fragments of lost Hàn–Táng geographical works; repr. Zhōnghuá shūjú, 1961); the Hàn Wèi yíshū chāo 漢魏遺書鈔 (lost texts of the Hàn and Wèi, 1798); and reconstructed editions of several pre-Qín texts, including his jíběn 輯本 of the Shìběn 世本 (KR2d0025), which was later gathered into the Shìběn bāzhǒng 世本八種 collection (Shanghai: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn, 1957). According to the Fǔzhōu fǔzhì 撫州府志, Wang Mo completed his compilation of the Hàn Wèi yíshū at the age of sixty-seven and died nineteen years later.