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Hey everyone! Today I wanted to highlight one of the Hopkins Nanjing Center’s most popular weekly student-run events, HNC Student TED Talks. Every Friday before the Student Committee (banwei) student mixer, a student will volunteer to give a presentation on a topic of their interest. There is always a large turnout given the range of interesting topics. Some previous topics HNC students have presented on include: Deforestation in Indonesia, Suppression of Women in Chinese History, Milk Industry in China and Global Wine Trade. Joaquin Matek, a first year MAIS student at the HNC, presented one of the most recent TED Talks on Memory and Mnemonics. HNC Student Joaquin Matek gives a TED Talk on Memory and Mnemonics I asked him to give a brief statement for the blog on his presentation. He explains, “We often think of memory as something mechanical and humdrum, but it is actually fundamental to our creative prowess as humans, and the greatest feats of memory are predicated on the power of i...

Hi Everyone! While studying at the HNC you’ll have a fall break, Chun Jie vacation, and spring break. We just had our spring break and I decided to travel domestically and further south than the ancient southern capital of China we at the HNC call home. You can get to Guilin, Guangxi, China by train (~20 hours) or plane (~2 hours) from Nanjing. If you have time, I suggest you take the train. It’s a good way to meet people on the train (just say hi! or ask if someone wants to play cards with you) and it’s a nice way to see more scenery. Guilin Elephant Trunk Hill Guilin was the jumping off point for the beginning of my trip, so I only had time to check out Guilin’s famous Elephant Trunk Hill. Elephant Trunk Hill is a hill in a lake that looks like an elephant drinking water, which has become a well-known landmark in Guilin. The excursion was short lived though as I was forced inside by a downpour. I didn’t mind because it gave me a chance to enjoy a cup of coffee and get some reading do...

Hello everyone! Last week, the students at HNC had our spring break. I have heard great stories from classmates that traveled throughout China and Southeast Asia. Some of the destinations that I have heard of include Guilin, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao and Sri Lanka. For me, sixteen classmates and I participated in HNC’s Beijing Career Trek. The Beijing Career Trek is a trip organized by HNC Career Services in which students, over the course of four days, have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with practitioners from a variety of sectors to gain first-hand insights into the organizations’ strategies, operations, challenges, and hiring needs and processes. Additionally, students have the opportunity to meet and network with HNC alumni in the Beijing area. In preparation for the event each of us researched one of the companies we met with and, before each meeting, briefed the rest of us on the company, their operations, and their job opportunities. In addition, we all had to buy...

Hello Everyone! In this post I’m going to be talking about some of the mini courses and guest lectures given at HNC this semester. The HNC hosts special events on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. These events have ranged from Nanjing University professors giving lectures and leading discussions to mini-courses. Mini-Course: International Banking On Saturday, March 26 and Sunday, March 27, Wells Fargo Deputy General Manager and SAIS Alumnus Han Lin, and Ms. Joey Zhou, a Wells Fargo Senior Trade Specialist, came to the HNC to teach a mini-course on US-China Cross Cultural Banking. The course focused on Mr. Lin’s experience in international banking and assisting U.S. companies who want to either do business with Chinese companies or open their own wholly foreign-owned enterprises (WFOEs) in China. On the first day of the mini-course, Mr. Lin focused on a number of issues revolving around: how US companies move money into China, how these companies facilitate growth in China, and how US compan...