Our deepest gratitude to Professor Pian for her generosity, in donating her entire collection of books on music, audio-visual materials and machines, teaching materials, notes, and musical instruments to the University in the years from 2006 to 2009.  The donation has become the treasure of the University Library – the Rulan Chao Pian Collection.  The collection includes such precious items as her personal dairy and her correspondence and photographs with students, scholars and other notable people.

The Collection is academically significant not just in music; it is coeval and intertwined with the 20th century history of China, a repository, a treasury of contemporary Chinese history and culture.  It is Professor Pian's wish that her donation would set an example, inducing scholars to value the study of East Asian history and culture, and the preservation and sharing of such materials.  In the years to come, the Rulan Chao Pian Collection will continue to benefit researchers and scholars at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and beyond.

Exhibition Website: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/Exhibition/pian_exhibit/index.html

Theodore H.H. and Rulan Chao Pian Memorial Fund
With support from the Pian family and CUHK's Department of Music, the Library has established The Theodore H.H. Pian and Rulan Chao Pian Memorial Fund.  The aim of the fund is to help maintain and develop the Rulan Chao Pian Collection housed in Chung Chi Library and/or to conduct scholarly research using the Pian Collection at CUHK and/or at Harvard University.  Details of how to donate to the fund are at http://rulanchaopian.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/inmemoryII.htm.