From 1950 to 1952, the curator was Hu Shih, distinguished Chinese scholar and former ambassador from China to the United States. Hu engaged James Tung (Dong Shigang) as his assistant, who became Curator and served from 1952 to 1977. The collection expanded substantially under Tung's curatorship. Princeton faculty member Frederick W. Mote guided further development on the Chinese side, and Marius Jansen led a major expansion of Japanese holdings. The collection of Japanese historical documents and publications became particularly rich.The collection was renamed the Princeton East Asian Library, though often called the Gest Library. In 1972 the collection was transferred to Palmer and Jones Halls. The collection at the time of the move to Princeton in 1937 held some 100,000 volumes ("juan"), 40% of which were manuscripts, early printings, and rare editions. The 24,000 volumes of works printed in the Ming dynasty made it one of the largest in the West. After World War II, the collection became the third largest in the US, after the Harvard-Yenching collection (which it had once outranked), and the Library of Congress holdings, which are almost twice as large. In 2016, the library held roughly 425,000 volumes of Chinese books, with a special strength in pre-modern literature and history; some 163,000 volumes of Japanese language book; a smaller collection of Korean language books; and more than 20,000 western language volumes. Acquisition librarians specialize in each of the major areas. Professor Ch'u Wan-li (Qu Wanli; 1907-1979), Curator of the National Central Library and the Institute of History and Philology, Academic Sinica, in Taiwan compiled a 671-page "Catalogue of the Chinese Rare Books in the Gest Collection of the Princeton University", published in Taiwan in 1974. The library publishes "The Gest Library Journal" (ISSN: 0891-0553), which started in 1986 and was renamed "The East Asian Library Journal" (ISSN: 1079-8021) in 1994. The contents are available free online.