19世纪爱默生对儒学进行的初步碎片式的研讨是美国儒学研究的肇始。20世纪初德国学者马克斯.韦伯的儒学研究建立在现代学术研究的基础上,使得西方的儒学研究真正具有了学术上的现代性,这对美国学界产生了深远的影响,其研究方法和研究体系对20世纪后半期美国整体性儒学研究的开展产生了重大的影响。 In the 19th century, Emerson’s preliminary study of Confucianism was the beginning of the study of Confucianism in the United States. The early 20th century German scholar Max Weber’s Confucianism study is based on the modern academic research, making the Western Confucianism truly academic academic, which has a profound impact on the American academic community, its research methods and research system This has had a significant impact on the development of holistic Confucianism in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century.