An Evolving Sino-American Collaboration

China's opening to the West challenges Johns Hopkins U.'s Nanjing center

By James Hertling

Nanjing, China -- The organizers of a unique educational collaboration between China and the United States are trying to determine how best to update its programs after almost a decade of operations here.

The curricular and financial questions facing the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies stand against a backdrop of China in the grip of a commercial frenzy, its universities in fiscal crisis, and the Tiananmen Square era a cautionary