RAS Beijing Post-AGM Dinner at the old Grand Hotel de Pekin – 22/3/25

This coming Saturday i’ll be speaking to the Royal Asiatic Society Beijing’s annual post-AGM dinner at the old Grand Hotel de Pekin (now Hotel Nuo on Chang’an Jie) on those old denizens of the bars, restaurants and rooftop dancefloor of the GHP from Wallis Simpson to Harold Acton, the American jazz bands and the likes of Nelson Rockefeller Jr and the author JP Marquand…. https://rasbj.org/membership/