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students, faculty and staff come together<br />

to live, learn, eat and sleep stand in<br />

clearer relief than ever.<br />

This year we are especially excited to<br />

launch a new venture sponsored by the<br />

Hassenfeld Family Foundation, longtime<br />

supporters of the HNC. The program,<br />

known as the Hassenfeld Social Enterprise<br />

Fund, will provide select teams of<br />

Chinese and international M.A. students<br />

with the opportunity to create, launch,<br />

run and eventually hand off projects<br />

that use innovative measures to meet<br />

pressing needs (see sidebar on page 71).<br />

The seeds our students will sow through<br />

the fund will bear fruit for years, even<br />

decades, to come.<br />

This June we will formally mark the<br />

25th anniversary of the center’s first<br />

graduating class. President Daniels and<br />

his counterpart, Nanjing University<br />

President Chen Jun, will lead our celebration<br />

(see sidebar at right).<br />

The event comes at the close of<br />

a spring semester that will see the<br />

welcoming of two Hopkins Scholars,<br />

funded by the Benjamin and Rhea Yeung<br />

Center for Collaborative China Studies<br />

at JHU (see sidebar on page 69).<br />

The Yeung Center, launched last year,<br />

expands opportunities for scholars and<br />

researchers across the university’s many<br />

divisions to partner with Chinese organizations<br />

in conducting cutting-edge<br />

research. The Hopkins Scholars Program<br />

will strengthen research ties between the<br />

HNC and greater Johns Hopkins.<br />

Sowing and reaping, reaping and<br />

sowing: This is our year-in, year-out<br />

work in the world of education. This<br />

June, as we welcome Daniels to Nanjing<br />

and join with our Nanjing University<br />

partners to celebrate, we will reap the<br />

rich and unique harvest of hearts and<br />

minds that now see a world that is both<br />

quite a bit smaller and unfathomably<br />

larger than the one they had known<br />

just a fall, winter and spring earlier. And<br />

of course we will sow, as we always do,<br />

the springtime seeds of curiosity and<br />

possibility that are the heart and soul<br />

of the HNC, and of all we do at <strong>SAIS</strong><br />

and JHU. n<br />

Jason D. Patent is American co-director of<br />

the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese<br />

and American Studies.<br />

70 <strong>SAIS</strong>PHERE<br />

HNC Celebrates 25 Years<br />

The theme of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s 25th anniversary celebration,<br />

to be held June 15–17 in Nanjing, will be “HNC: Yesterday,<br />

Today and Tomorrow.” Events will include a gathering of all past<br />

co-directors (“yesterday”), the commencement ceremony (“today”),<br />

and a summit where alumni and center leaders can discuss their<br />

vision for the HNC’s next<br />

25 years (“tomorrow”).<br />

In honor of Kuang Yaming and<br />

Steven Muller, the two visionary<br />

university presidents who brought<br />

the center to life in 1986, JHU President<br />

Ronald Daniels and Nanjing<br />

University President Chen Jun will<br />

preside over the festivities.<br />

Many graduates consider their<br />

time at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center<br />

a life-changing experience. After<br />

25 years of commencement cer-<br />

emonies and the awarding of more<br />

than 2,000 certificates and master’s<br />

degrees, the HNC community looks<br />

forward to revisiting the notable<br />

achievements of the center and its<br />

many distinguished alumni.<br />

“The 25th anniversary celebrations<br />

will be a very special opportunity<br />

for the big Hopkins-Nanjing<br />

Center family to gather together and<br />

share with each other the ways in<br />

which the center has affected their<br />

lives,” said Chinese Co-Director<br />

Huang Chengfeng. Her American<br />

counterpart, Jason D. Patent, added,<br />

“China and the world have changed<br />

so much over the past 25 years. The<br />

gathering this June should celebrate<br />

the hard work of this year’s graduates<br />

and also help us sharpen our<br />

vision for the center’s next quarter<br />

century.”<br />

Ma Yunxia N’87, a member of<br />

HNC’s first graduating class and<br />

a director at Deloitte in New York<br />

City, sees the 25th anniversary gathering<br />

as an opportunity to reconnect<br />

with classmates, who have scattered<br />

to the four corners of the globe and<br />

to many different careers. “My life<br />

certainly was affected significantly<br />

by my time at the Hopkins-Nanjing<br />

Then ...<br />

... And Now<br />

Center,” she said. “I want to see the next generation have the same opportunities<br />

my classmates and I had to learn and to make lifelong friends across<br />

cultures.”<br />

—Patrick Cranley

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