留美生是活跃在近代中国科技、教育、文化领域的一支具有现代意识和活动能量的新型知识群体。在知识结构上 ,学贯中西 ,善于结合中国社会的特点来移植西方文化 ;在创造新文化的途径和方法上 ,注重贯彻民主、自由和科学精神 ,通过组织学会、“教授治校”、学术交流 ,在学界形成了一种新的文化机制。中国近代学术文化的现代转型 ,留美生是举足轻重的中坚力量 ,由此也确立了其鲜明的中国现代学术文化奠基者的特殊地位 The students from the United States are a new type of knowledge group active in modern science and technology, education and culture in China and have the energy of modern consciousness and activity. In knowledge structure, learning Chinese and Western, good at combining the characteristics of Chinese society to transplant Western culture; in the ways and means of creating a new culture, focusing on implementing democracy, freedom and scientific spirit, through the organization of society, “professor of governance”, academic Exchange, in the academic community formed a new cultural mechanism. The modern transformation of modern Chinese academic culture, the United States is a pivotal force in the United States, which also established its distinctive founder of modern Chinese culture, the special status