Hing Chao is the founder of Hong Kong Culture Festival, Executive Director of International Guoshu Association, and a leading researcher in martial studies. He co-founded Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive, the largest martial arts motion archive in the world, and has organised several internationally influential martial art exhibitions, most recently Kung Fu Motion: A Living Archive (Lausanne: 2018); Safeguarding the Community: An Intangible Cultural Heritage New Media Exhibition (2018), and Way of the Sword: Warrior Traditions in China and Italy (2021). Hing is also the founder of International Martial Studies Conference, and the founding editor of the book series Martial Studies and Hong Kong Martial Arts Research.