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Title: Terry Sicular papers
Date (inclusive): 1987-1988
Collection Number: 2022C2
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Chinese
Physical Description:
5 oversize boxes
(7.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: 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.
Creator:
Sicular, Terry, 1955-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
[Identification of item], Terry Sicular papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of sets of completed household survey questionnaires from rural Qingyuan County, Guangdong province,
China from the late 1980s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Household surveys
Qingyuan Shi (China)
China -- Rural conditions
Families -- China
Demographic surveys
Statistics