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.

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.

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