Grounded inampamp10a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kongsampamp10Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to placeampamp10them in a context of books and images in American British and other Asianampamp10collections Chinese Music in Printampamp10views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact and thenampamp10uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It beginsampamp10by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy ofampamp10the concubine and amanuensis Shen Caiampamp8217s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianismampamp10was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life and an exploration of its ritualampamp10is the bookampamp8217s second theme.