Dr. Gao Yongmei came backfrom
Johns Hopkins SAIS after 180-day academic visit starting from
January13, 2017.
Professor David M. Lampton is her
tutor, who is George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at
the Johns Hopkins SAIS and Chairman of The Asia Foundation. In January 2015, he
was named the most influential China watcher by the Institute of International
Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Dr. Gao’s research
is on“Women Leaders in the Global
Affairs: A Case Study of USA”. She attended 4 courses and more than 15 academic
lectures, workshops and conferences, visited 3 think tanks, and interviewed 4
individuals. She completed 3 papers on the international sister cities to
re-think about the urban development and urban identity, to explore, from the
perspective of sub-diplomacy, the role of women‘s empowerment and discourse in
public diplomacy shaping China’s national image and national identity. Her
paper“Ways to Develop the Public
Awareness of Environmental Protection: A Case Study of Washington DC as
Beijing’s Sister City”was published in GREEN CHINA(pp74-77,20178A), and her
prose“Present Progressive Tense of
Sino-US Bilateral Relations Washington DC in April”was published in
Beijing Carders Education Journal (monthly, May 2017).
Dr.Gao Yongmei with Professor Lampton
Johns Hopkins SAIS (the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies),
established in Washington DC in 1943,isa leading global institution
that offers students a truly international perspective on today’s critical
issues. Itseducation
combines the academic depth of a graduate school with the practical policy
focus of a professional school.Such a unique interdisciplinary
professional education readily and diversely prepares a graduate student body
for internationally related positions of responsibility, to foster research,
scholarship and cross-cultural exchange, and to contribute knowledge, expertise
and leadership to the global community.
Dr.Gao said, “It is a great time of staying with the staffs in SAIS.
Professor Lampton and Professor Carla Freeman have inspired me a great deal,
and the diverse academic atmosphere benefits me much more than I expected. I am
really grateful that BAI offered me such an opportunity just before my career
of teaching ends in the year of 2020. ”
