Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

The Hopkins-Nanjing Center admissions team will be on the road again this fall! This year we are going to over 100 schools across the United States and Canada. Admissions representatives will be holding info sessions, visiting Chinese classes, and holding one-on-one appointments. See the list below to see if the HNC will be visiting your school this fall. If you can't meet us in person, we are also holding virtual info sessions throughout the fall. Click on the links below for more information to RSVP and sign up for email reminders.     September 13 7:00-8:00pm ET     October 3 7:00-8:00pm ET     October 25 7:00-8:00pm ET Please contact us at nanjing@jhu.edu for visit details or to schedule a one-on-one appointment when we are at your campus. For on-the-road updates, follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram @HopkinsNanjing. We look forward to meeting you this fall!   Arizona Arizona State University  C...

For several years, Nanjing University and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center have jointly published a series of books in Chinese and English that feature subjects and authors related to US-China relations and/or the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. The most recent book, The Hopkins-Nanjing Center Book of Memories , celebrates all things HNC as a 30th anniversary tribute. Edited by the co-directors of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2016, it features interviews and fond remembrances from former faculty, students, and staff.  It also includes a selection of academic and Commencement speeches delivered at the HNC over the past 30 years.  Short pieces, all of them in both Chinese and English, range from academic to humorous and sentimental. Those who see the HNC as an important chapter in their life are guaranteed to find something or someone they remember in these pages!   All the books in the Series, which is collectively called The United States, China, and the Contemporary World , ar...

Max Parasol, MAIS 2012, reflects back on his time at the HNC and his experience as a senior fellow at at Monash University.  Read on to hear how his HNC experience helped further his career.   Max with his Chinese roommate, Yuguang Tell us about your current role. I am a Senior Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, where I created two courses about the Chinese legal system for LLM students. I am currently completing my PhD on Chinese innovation policies at the University of Technology, Sydney. I consult based on my research. I previously, spent more than 5 years studying and practicing law in China. I practised law in Victoria, Western Australia, and Shanghai. How did your experience at the HNC prepare you for this work? Writing my thesis in Chinese, taught me humility, and an understanding of what is “sensitive” in China. And what is not. My supervisor Professor Li Bin, was outstanding and he really helped me learn how to write a thesis. Through P...

At the end of the 2016-2017 Academic year nearly 40 Hopkins-Nanjing Center MAIS students defended their theses. The wide variety of compelling topics speaks to the intellectual curiosity and wide-ranging academic interests of the HNC’s unique Chinese and international student body. While at the HNC, MAIS students choose a concentration area from among the six different areas of study offered: International Politics; International Economics; International and Comparative Law; Energy, Resources and Environment; Chinese Studies; and American Studies. During their two years of study, international and Chinese MAIS students are required to research, write, and orally defend a thesis in their “target language.” Chinese students complete their thesis in English and international students complete their thesis in Chinese. To help prepare for thesis research and writing, MAIS students have thesis advisers in their target language and participate in thesis prep courses that focus on research app...

 In honor of the HNC’s 30th anniversary, the HNC has created the U.S.-China Exchange Scholars Fellowship for alumni of U.S. government-supported programs for Chinese language study. These programs include, but are not limited, to the Critical Language Scholarship, Boren Award for International Study, Chinese Language Flagship Program, and the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. We are pleased to introduce our first five U.S.-China Exchange Scholars for the 2017-2018 academic year who have studied Chinese through a number of U.S. government-supported programs.  Emily Rivera Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) HNC Certificate ‘18 Emily Rivera graduated from Hamilton College in 2016 with dual concentrations in Government and Chinese. The daughter of two first-generation Colombian immigrants, Emily grew up speaking both English and Spanish. Largely because of this, Emily developed a keen interest in intercultural dialogue at an early age and lat...

During the Dragon Boat holiday in June, the HNC participated in Nanjing’s annual dragon boat race and held the annual end of the year barbecue at the HNC.  Levi Johnson, one of the members of the student committee ( banwei ), was instrumental in organizing the barbecue and also participated on the cheer team for the dragon boat festival. For this post, I have asked Levi share his memories from the photos of the Dragon Boat Festival weekend. The Dragon Boat team competing in their festival race Levi: First what comes to mind when I look at this photo from the race is teamwork and the team spirit of the HNC that was represented by the group. I see the preparation they put into that day. I see the workouts we had together, I see the sweat, the breakfast, the team meetings, the 油条 and pancakes, and I see the leadership of Mykael and Maguire. Most of all, I see the pride of representing the HNC.  I remember the excitement of watching the team give their utmost effort to wi...

On June 9, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center held its thirty-first commencement to celebrate the hard work of the certificate and MAIS students. Congratulations to the HNC class of 2017! This year the HNC was proud to host three alumni from the graduating class of 1995: Qi Kezhan, Josh Perlman, and Helen Yang. Graduates, professors, staff and assembled friends and family clearly enjoyed the sincere and meaningful stories that the speakers shared of their life at the HNC and how connections made at the HNC transformed their lives and careers. Chinese Co-Director He Chengzhou  The ceremony kicked off with opening remarks by Chinese Co-Director, He Chengzhou. He thanked the students for a great year and wished them luck for the future. Chinese Co-Director He and American Co-Director Davies then recognized the Class Committees from the fall and spring semesters for their hard work. Josh Perlman delivering commencement address Josh Perlman (HNC ’95), Managing Director at Brande...