In 1995 Peimin Ni (Chinese: 倪培民; pinyin: Ní Péimín) established GVSU's Shanghai, China study abroad program, and by the 2000s he and Geling Shang (商戈令; Shāng Gēlìng) co-lead it. Word of mouth and announcements in classes were used to promote it. Daniel Golden, author of Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, stated that the organizers initially had trouble finding interested students.[63]