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The Hopkins-Nanjing Center's 30th Anniversary Celebration kicked off on June 17 with commencement at the HNC. Congratulations to to the class of 2016! The commencement ceremony featured keynote remarks by Lisa Heller, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and Zhou Wei, Deputy Director-General at the Jiangsu Province Foreign Affairs Office. President of Nanjing University, Chen Jun and President of Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels also made remarks to the class of 2016. 2016 MAIS graduates Emily Shea, International Student Representative International student and MAIS graduate, Emily Shea, and Chinese student, Caixiao Chen were selected as student representatives. In the spirit of the HNC's bilingual community, student representatives delivered their addresses in their target languages.  Below is the full transcript of Emily's speech. 尊敬的各位来宾、老师，亲爱的同学们， 大家好 ! 我叫沈琳，我是今年二年级硕士班的毕业生。 今天 ，我 很荣幸 能够 代表 2...

The Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s 30th Anniversary Celebration is just one week away! In honor of the 30th anniversary year, we have compiled a list of 30 things to love about the HNC. HNC graduates become part of the 2600 HNC alumni network who occupy positions of responsibility in all areas of China’s global relations. The HNC has intellectual freedom to discuss, debate and learn with Chinese peers and faculty. HNC students form a dragon boat team and participate in the Nanjing dragon boat competition, a time honored tradition in China. This year the HNC team placed third in the final competition! 2016 HNC Dragon Boat Team Nanjing is less than a 2 hour train ride away from the international center of Shanghai. HNC Students and faculty have access to the HNC’s uncensored library with over 120,000 volumes in Chinese and English.   Hopkins-Nanjing Center Library Students get one-on-one attention from faculty members with small class sizes and weekly office hours. HNC grads can be f...

Hi Everyone! Today I wanted to highlight one of my favorite classes at the center I’m taking this semester—Professor Mushkat’s International Dispute Resolution course. MAIS students at the Hopkins Nanjing Center are required to take at least one class in every concentration. While I’m not concentrating in International Law at the HNC, but I took this course to fulfill this requirement. On top of that, the course sounded really interesting to me as it touches on legal aspects and mechanisms vital to international relations and negotiations. First and foremost, I will say I have the utmost respect for Professor Mushkat. I say this because I am definitely challenged in her class even though it is in my native language. However, Professor Mushkat makes the class accessible for non-law concentration students and non-native English language students. She provides useful readings, which she supplements with her succinct in-class lectures.  Don’t expect to be sitting through lectures the...