Terry Sicular papers, 1987-1988

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Summary

Creators:
Sicular, Terry, 1955-
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.
Extent:
5 oversize boxes (7.5 Linear Feet)
Language:
In Chinese
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Terry Sicular papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of sets of completed household survey questionnaires from rural Qingyuan County, Guangdong province, China from the late 1980s.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2022.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Terry Sicular papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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