Yang, Vivian W. Yen, Chang King-yu, Nancy Huang, Loh I-cheng, and Wei Cheng... They differ in background and fields of achievement, but all of them are products of the same school: Columbia University in the United States.
早年的顧維鈞、蔣廷黻、宋子文、胡適、馮友蘭；近期的李煥、倪文亞、楊西昆、吳舜文、張京育、余夢燕、陸以正、魏崢……，他們的背景互異，表現各擅勝場，但都有一個共同的「出處」﹘﹘美國哥倫比亞大學。