About Us

RASBJ/ 北京煌雅文化, based in Beijing, offers in-person talks, online discussions, excursions and social gatherings which explore Chinese and Asian culture, history, art, cultural heritage preservation, science and technology. Our events feature Chinese and international scholars, authors and others focusing on the peoples of China and Asia and their interactions with the rest of the world -- past, present, and future.

RASBJ aims to be a bridge towards cultural understanding. Our high-quality, curated events cater to the intellectually curious; about 120 have been recorded since February 2020 and the video archive can be accessed on demand by RASBJ members. If you'd like to join as a member, please visit the Memberships page of this website. (On your phone, click on the menu at the top left corner of the screen -- the three horizontal lines -- and select Memberships. On the computer, click on the Memberships tab at the top of the screen.)

For more information on RASBJ activities, please visit the Events page of this website, where you can toggle between Upcoming Events and Past Events to see what is currently open for registration, as well as activities held in the past. (On your phone, click on the menu at the top left corner of the screen -- the three horizontal lines -- and select Events. On the computer, click on the Events tab at the top of the screen.) We also invite you to hold the dates for these events further ahead:

o April 3: “A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War”, an online book talk by Bill Lascher (evening)

o April 17: Online talk by Ian Gill on his upcoming book, “Searching for Billie: A Journalist’s Quest to Understand His Mother’s Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China” (evening)

o April 21: Birding with Terry Townshend (morning)

o May 8: “The Asian Age of Exploration”, an online talk by Valerie Hansen (evening)

o May 22: "Can machines acquire human mindedness?", an in-person talk by Sebastian Sunday (evening)