Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is a 26-book series with 26 released primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Laurel Kendall, Dae-Sook Suh, Roderick MacFarquhar, Gerald L. Curtis, Barbara J. Brooks, Charles K. Armstrong, Alexis Dudden, Kenneth J. Ruoff, Fabio Lanza, Janis Mimura, Aaron Herald Skabelund, Yukiko Koshiro, Janet Poole, Jessamyn R. Abel, Lee Pennington, Charlene Makley, Alyssa M. Park, Claire E. Edington, Mary Augusta Brazelton, Jeremy A. Yellen, Tatiana Linkhoeva, Duncan McCargo, Suzanne E. Scoggins, Christopher Gerteis, Chien-Wen Kung, Elizabeth Lacouture, D. Colin Jaundrill, and Benno Weiner.