“Playing Heaven” is an inter-university collaboration based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and one of the inaugural recipients of the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) grant. The project seeks to rethink the intellectual and cultural history of early modern East Asia with the development of a domain-specific artificial intelligence system. Rather than treating philosophical schools, literary traditions, and cultural practices as fixed categories, the project approaches them as historically contingent formations shaped by processes of transmission, adaptation, and reinterpretation. More information at https://bigdatastudies.net/playing-heaven/.