Weeding Library Collections

Grounded in a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to place them in a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections, Chinese Music in Print views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact, and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy of the concubine and amanuensis Shen Cai’s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianism was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life, and an exploration of its ritual is the book’s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are represented in the third chapter, while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for an exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favourite instrument, the qin. The final chapter ends the journey with discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who

香港中文大學圖書館深信讓書海珍籍廣為流傳，是守護圖書上善方法，故乘二零一三年大學五十周年校慶之際，舉辦展覽，輯錄《書海驪珠：香港中文大學圖書館珍藏專輯》，與社會各界分享大學圖書館過去搜求、採購所得珍貴館藏，以期向公衆介紹典籍文獻、播揚學術文化。《專輯》收錄東西語文珍藏一百二十種，藏品年代跨越三千五百年，有商代甲骨、十三世紀及以後古籍善本、二十世紀現當代書刊、清朝以至近代名家書畫、手稿及信函。中文書籍涵蓋經史子集四部，有雕板墨色印刷、套印、活字以至現當代技術所印製書刊，部分為粵東、香港著述，較著者有元刻本《易本義附錄纂疏》，及現存朝鮮漢文《大藏經》最早版本《高麗藏》。西文古籍有十五世紀自手稿過渡至印刷本之搖籃本，即醫學權威塞爾蘇西所著《醫學論》，及其他拉丁文、法文、英文要籍，當中有古希臘、羅馬時期醫學、建築名著，並有清末西方傳教士與漢學家遊歷亞洲，包括中國及香港紀實之作。 The CUHK Library believes it is best to make its valuable collections known and accessible to as many people as possible. On the occasion of the University’s fiftieth anniversary in 2013, the Library organized an exhibition and compiled this commemorative volume From the Treasure House: Jewels from the Library of The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a view to promoting scholarship and sharing with the public the treasures which the Library has collected over the past fifty years. This special volume features 120 selected titles and rare items from the Library’s collections spanning over 3,500 years