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Night(s) at the opera for an old China hand: from one international stage to another
Caroline Cooper ‘99
After graduation Caroline immediately left for China to teach English at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she spent a years teaching as well as reporting for The Economist. After coming back to the states and earning a graduate degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard focusing in public policy, Caroline spent three years as a speech writer and communications officer for the UN in Indonesia then returned to China to join the New York Times Beijing bureau. Back in the US now, she’s just finished writing her first book and is working with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC (albeit not as a singer), a role that she reports “offers a needed break from all things East Asia and policy oriented!” Caroline remarks that her English degree “has taken me in lots of thrilling directions, led above all by a love for language. It’s a great degree and I’m so proud to have been a part of the department and a part of Vassar!” Now that her first book is underway, we expect that her love of language will lead her readers in equally thrilling directions.