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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