Cai Shaoqing

| birth_place = Hexing Township, Changshu, Jiangsu, Republic of China | death_date = | death_place = Nanjing, China | nationality = Chinese | occupation = Historian, professor | awards = Frederic Milton Thrasher Award
National University of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Outstanding Achievement Award | education = Nanjing Normal University, Peking University, Nanjing University | influences = Shao Xunzheng | discipline = History of China | sub_discipline = Historian of the Warlord Era, late Qing Dynasty, and early Republic of China | workplaces = Nanjing University | doctoral_students = | notable_students = Elizabeth J. Perry | main_interests = Chinese secret societies | notable_works = ''On the Origins of the Tiandihui'' (''关于天地会的起源问题'') (1964)
''Research on the History of the Party in Modern China'' (''中国近代会党史研究'') (1987)
''Chinese Secret Society'' (''中国秘密社会'') (1989)
''Bandits in the Republic of China'' (''民国时期的土匪'') (1993) }}

Cai Shaoqing (; 14 August 1933 – 30 November 2019) was a Chinese historian and professor at Nanjing University, considered a leading authority on the history of Chinese secret societies. He pioneered the research of Tiandihui and other secret societies using Qing dynasty archives and overturned the findings of earlier Republican-era scholars. He also studied the links between the Warlord Era and banditry during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. He received the Frederic Milton Thrasher Award for his research on Chinese secret societies. Provided by Wikipedia