Description
The Terry Sicular papers (1987-1988) consist of a set of completed household survey questionnaires from rural Qingyuan County,
Guangdong province, China from the late 1980s.
Background
Terry Sicular (1955-). North American specialist on the Chinese economy with extensive writings on inequality, poverty, the
labor market and the rural economy in China. Sicular holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and is Professor Emerita
and Adjunct Research Professor of Economics, Western University. Her research combines economic analysis with knowledge of
China's history, political economy and institutions, and with evidence from fieldwork, survey data collection, and primary
Chinese source materials. She has published numerous articles and books on topics ranging from China's rural economy to economic
reform, inequality, poverty, the middle class, and education. She is a two-time recipient of the Sun Yefang Prize in Economic
Science and has been awarded research grants by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC (CSCPRC), National Science
Foundation (NSF), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Centre for International Governance Innovation and
Institute for New Economic Thinking (CIGI-INET), and the Ford Foundation. In the 1990s she was a participant in the Zouping
(Shandong) field research project; since 2000 she has been a leading member of the China Household Survey Project (CHIP),
an international collaborative survey research project. She has served as consultant to governmental and international organizations
such as the World Bank, United Nations, and Asian Development Bank.
Availability
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