Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

While learning and expanding one’s mastery of Chinese can feel rewarding, incoming Hopkins-Nanjing Center students may also feel worried about preparing for the learning curve. Eljoy shares his favorite Mandarin-language shows and channels to help students find ways to make learning Chinese more entertaining and easily digestible.  As an avid language learner, I believe that supplementing language learning with cultural learning is a great way to improve one’s language abilities. This is the exact environment that the Hopkins-Nanjing Center provid es. At the HNC, students utilize and continue to learn Chinese within a cultural context.  Whether you are learning about inflation ( 通货膨胀 ) for the first time in an economics class, analyzing China’s ethnic minorities ( 少数民族 ) in a history class, or critiquing China’s environmental policies ( 环境政策 ) in your ERE class, HNC students are constantly introduced to and familiarized with high-level vocabularies containing cultural ties to ...

Rosalind (Roz) Reischer, Certificate '16, is currently ​​an associate director at APCO's Washington, D.C.-based Public Affairs practice.  What led you to the HNC and China?  Roz studied Chinese and East Asian Studies at the University of Virginia, then moved to China and worked for a few years in HR and recruiting for a Chinese company. She transitioned to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center because she wanted to learn more about energy security and international relations, and found the Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE) concentration a perfect fit for her.     What drew you to study ERE at the HNC? When Roz attended the HNC and pursued the concentration in ERE studies, she described it as an exciting and unique time for studying the environment, national resources, and energy. She saw the Obama administration pursue the Paris Climate Accords, saw how environmental protection plays an important role in the international community, and viewed it as a way for her to ...