Johns Hopkins University Nanjing Center | China

Established in 1986, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies was the creation of then-Johns Hopkins University President Steven Muller and then-Nanjing University President Kuang Yaming. Both men recognized the importance of mutual understanding to improved relations between China and the West, and agreed that the best way to achieve such understanding was to bring people together for an extended period of intense exposure to each other's history, culture, contemporary thought and society. Such development and training of leaders in Sino-Western relations for the next century would certainly contribute to stable international relations in its broadest sense.