Americans and 36 Chinese of mixed heights are the first students at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.

The Americans will take classes in Chinese history, economics, trade, politics, all from Chinese faculty. The Chinese will study the US with American university professors. All the Chinese students are proficient in English; all the Americans have master’s degrees plus fluency in Chinese. This is a pre-professional program. Which means the men and women who spend the year at the Nanjing Center will end up as diplomats or business people in one another’s country.