Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

On May 9, 2023, Ambassador Nicholas Burns and colleagues from the US Mission to China visited the Nanjing University (NJU) and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC). The tour began on NJU’s historic Gulou campus, including stops at the historic North Building and the Pearl S. Buck House. The latter was the residence of American author Pearl S. Buck for 15 years in the 1920s and 1930s and since 2012, it has been a small museum dedicated to Buck’s life. One of the highlights was when the Pearl S. Buck House Director showed the Ambassador the third-floor cupola where Buck wrote most of her Noble Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth . The Ambassador then met with NJU school leadership before coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.   Visit to the Pearl S. Buck House in Nanjing. Photos courtesy of @USAmbChina on Twitter The Ambassador toured the Hopkins-Nanjing Center campus facilities, including the HNC’s world-class library. During the library tour, the Ambassador was able to view the HNC’s co...

Adam Dunnett, Secretary-General of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China On April 26, 2023, representatives from the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China visited the Hopkins-Nanjing Center to introduce the Chamber and available job opportunities. Mr. Adam Dunnett, the Secretary-General—in charge of seeing the Chamber’s seven chapters across nine Chinese cities—led the presentation.  Mr. Dunnett spoke about the Chamber’s history and crystallized its mission as “ABC”: Advocacy, Business Intelligence, and Community Building. He also introduced the important advocacy work the Chamber does on behalf of European companies in China, what he enjoys about working at the Chamber, and the number of HNC students who have interned and worked at the Chamber over the years.  Speaking to over twenty HNC students, Dunnett was joined by Nanjing Chapter General Manager Ms. You Haiyan and Government Affairs Manager Ms. Chen Si. Ms. You explained how advocacy plays out locally by ...

Yasuyuki Goto (Hopkins-Nanjing Center, ‘10) recently established the Yasuyuki Goto fellowship for students at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. In the interview below, he shared his impressive career trajectory in international finance, his passion about working as a bridge between the East and West in finance, his HNC story, along with his reasons for giving back to the community. Yasuyuki with his classmates at the HNC, wearing the class shirt he designed  Could you talk a bit about your career after the Hopkins-Nanjing Center? After graduating from the HNC in 2010, I returned to Tokyo to start my finance career, working at Macquarie Bank as a junior equity analyst covering commodity sectors in Japan. In the process, I discovered my interest in asset management, and switched to the so-called “buy-side”, working at the Tokyo office of PIMCO, an American investment management firm. After that, I worked at Blackstone Group, fundraising for Blackstone’s private funds from Japanese investor...

With more and more international students back on campus and Chinese students coming back after the Spring Festival holiday, the HNC has been getting livelier day by day. A highlight of the semester for many students has been the interest group classes organized for students to learn erhu 二胡, ping-pong and calligraphy. Students reflect on what they have learned in these classes, and the sense of community they create. For the Spring semester, the HNC has invited some teachers to offer interest courses in calligraphy, erhu and ping-pong. With a steady flow of international and Chinese students arriving at the Center, on-campus students have the opportunity to spend more time together and learn a new skill. The interest group classes are a great way to make new friends, take a break from studying, and engage more with Chinese culture. Joe Baldock (MAIS’ 2023), Yu Jie 郁杰 (Certificate’ 2023), Chris Hankin (MAIS’ 2024) and Sophia Pradels (MAIS’ 2024) reflect on the classes they are taking. ...

On Friday, February 24th, Hopkins-Nanjing Center students gathered on Zoom to elect their new Spring 2023 student representatives, a group of four students known as the banwei (班委). United by their desire to “leave no one behind” as the HNC transitions from a hybrid to an in-person environment, Fu Jiapei, Nancy Brancati, Alexander Nash, and Cheng Feiyu were selected to advocate for their fellow students. I had the lovely opportunity of speaking with our four new representatives and learning more about who they are, their inspiration to join the banwei , and their visions for this semester.   Meet the Spring 2023 Banwei! The Spring 2023 Banwei  in the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's courtyard 傅佳沛 Fu Jiapei (MAIS 2024)  From Xiamen, Fujian, Jiapei was a French major at Nanjing University Jinling College. After discovering a newfound passion in the social sciences, Jiapei joined HNC as an ERE concentrator.   贝念慈 Nancy Brancati (MAIS 2023)  Born in New York and ...

William Stockton works in Shanghai, China as an Account Manager at Kantar, a data, insights and consulting company. He attended the Hopkins-Nanjing Center as a Master’s in International Studies student from 2019 to 2021 concentrating in International Economics. He wrote his master’s thesis on The US-China Trade War’s Impact on China’s New Energy Private Vehicle Market. William at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center Tell us a bit more about your career and your current role. I work as an account manager in the qualitative research department at an insights, consulting, and brand strategy firm. We do deep dives into consumers’ habits, creative testing, and concept testing. I help global companies with their marketing and consumer insight problems in China. I work with a lot of different industries, from e-commerce, to fashion apparel, to food beverage, auto industry, technology—it’s a little bit of everything. We provide clients with implications to help their marketing and business strategy team...

HNC students in Singapore The second - ever HNC-in-the-World trip—a Hopkins-Nanjing Center initiative to allow students to explore China’s global engagements—took place in Southeast Asia during the center’s Fall Break between November 19 th and 26 th , 2022. Co-Director Webb and Professor David Arase led 19 students, including myself, on an 8-day trip split between Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City to learn about China-ASEAN engagement with ASEAN-US relations and embed this triad of bilateral relations in the larger Sino-US geopolitical contest for influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Last semester, students had the chance to visit Peru in April 2022. Read more about the trip to Peru here !   The trip had two main components: The first part of the trip led by Professor Arase was a mini-course called “Sino-US Rivalry in Southeast Asia.” Students met with experts and Ph.D. candidates from the Yusof Ishak Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and National University of Singapore’s Middl...