Chi-ming Hou

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Chi-ming Hou (Chinese: 侯繼明, 3 December 1924 – 22 August 1991) was an American economist.

Biography

Hou was born on December 3, 1924, in Zhili (now Hebei), Republic of China. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Fu Jen Catholic University in 1945, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1949, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1956, he has successively served a faculty, Charles A. Dana Professor, Head of Economics Department, Director of Division Social Superior at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. He is also a research professor at Brookings Institution (1965–1966) and a Research fellow in Chinese economics studies at Harvard University (1959–1962).^{[citation needed]}

He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Taiwan in 1970–1971. Since 1981 he became a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.

Contributions and recognition

Hou's representative work is Foreign Investment Economic Development in China 1840-1937, he has been listed as a noteworthy Economics educator by Marquis Who's Who.^{[citation needed]} In addition, he worked with Sho-Chieh Tsiang and Tzong-Shian Yu to study Taiwan's industrial upgrading, and has also cooperated with Lin Chuan and others to study the feasibility of establishing public and railway transportation funds in Taiwan.

• Member, American Economics Association (AEA).
• Member, Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

See also

• Sho-Chieh Tsiang
• Lin Chuan

External links

• Chi-Ming Hou | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937 — Chi-ming Hou | Harvard University Press
• Chi-Ming Hou at Find a Grave

References