Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

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...