Sheryl Chow received her PhD in Musicology in 2023 from Princeton University with a dissertation entitled ‘The Order of Pitches: Music Theory, Science, and Western Learning in 17th-Century China’. By analysing an imperially commissioned Chinese music treatise—the Correct Principles of Music (Lülü zhengyi 律呂正義)—in the political and cultural contexts of China, her dissertation reveals the ways in which pre-existing Chinese writings on music, Western mathematics and music theory, and empirical observations served as incoherent sources for music reformers to reconstruct an orthodox musical system for the Qing court that was supposedly lost in antiquity. Her dissertation project was supported by the Centre for Chinese Studies Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies and the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship.