Affiliates
Hanart Forum
Hanart Forum was established in 2022 as a discursive platform for contemporary thought, and a site for exploring diverse artistic practices.
Hanart Forum is situated in a restored heritage building in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, an Edwardian colonial-style row house that dates from 1920. The site opened in spring 2024 and since then has mounted a series of projects, including installations, forums, and literary gatherings.
Hanart Press
Hanart Press, founded in 2023, is committed to Open Access publications on cutting-edge research on the intersection between philosophy, art and technology.
It operates in conjunction with the contemporary art platform Hanart Forum, supported by the Jia Li Hall Foundation.
PSTA China Centre
Co-founded by the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London and the Yuan Centre in Suzhou, PSTA China Centre honours the heritage of the traditional arts and crafts of China through education programmes aimed at reinvigorating tradition within the contemporary context. The programme enables a meaningful engagement with Chinese artistic heritage and traditions on different levels – practical, cultural and inspirational – within the contemporary context. As the only institution in China to have official, certified affiliation with the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, PSTA China Centre whole heartedly supports the propagation and reinvigoration of intangible culture through its independent and collaborative projects.
Jia Li Hall
“Jiali” meaning “at home” in chinese is a contemporary art gallery founded in Beijing by Daphne Mallet that exposes young artists, both Chinese and international, in a private home.
Research Network for Philosophy and Technology
The Research Network for Philosophy and Technology was established in 2014 as a project to rethink the relation between philosophy and technology, and the future of this relation from global and historical perspectives. It is first of all an attempt to address the varieties of technological thought, in comparison with and also beyond the dominant Promethean discourses. It also wants to elaborate on and develop further the relevance between non-modern thoughts and modern technologies. These questions are often undermined and ignored in the established academic disciplines on technology and philosophy; this is also the reason for which this network hopes to bring together different points of views and new thinking, based on solid historical research, philosophical speculations and experiments.
JinZe Art Centre
Founded in 2002, Jin Ze Art Centre (JZAC) is an independent organization aimed at promoting and preserving traditional arts, crafts, and culture. JZAC has approximately 14 acres of property and is situated in the Jiangnan-style water village area known as Jinze Town. Under the guidance of the Jinze Town government and in response to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s efforts to nourish cultural confidence, the art centre provides a platform to foster the exchanges of ideas and techniques among artists, scholars, and traditional craft-lovers alike via innovative approaches.
West Heavens Project
West Heavens is an integrated cross-cultural exchange programme. It aims to untangle and compare the different paths of modernity taken by India and China.
Moonchu Foundation
Moonchu Foundation was established in 2007 with a mission to support culture and education-related research, publications, and talks. In recent years, projects sponsored by the Foundation include New Asia Lectures on Confucianism of New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the “Remaking Confucian Rites” project jointly run by the China Rites Studies Research Centre of Tsinghua University, Jia Li Tang and the City University of Hong Kong, archival research on Hong Kong history by Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the Sino-Indian cultural exchange programme “West Heaven”.