Grounded inamp10a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kongsamp10Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to placeamp10them in a context of books and images in American British and other Asianamp10collections Chinese Music in Printamp10views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact and thenamp10uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It beginsamp10by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy ofamp10the concubine and amanuensis Shen Caiamp8217s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianismamp10was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life and an exploration of its ritualamp10is the bookamp8217s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are representedamp10in the third chapter while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for anamp10exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favourite instrument the qin. The final chapter ends the journeyamp10with discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who have visitedamp10China and their contribution to the understanding of a more vernacularamp10instrument the erhu.amp160