| Although Confucianism originated in China's thought culture system, but already moves toward the world, and becomes an important part of the world philosophy. With the introduction of Confucianism to the United States, the United States have also had Confucianism, which have significant impacts are Boston Confucianist school and Hawaiian Confucianist school.This article takes two schools'main representative personage Tu Wei-ming and Cheng Zhong-ying as the examples to discuss the thoughts of different schools of American Confucianism, trying to stand up on the international perspective to examine Confucianism, and adding fresh blood to the world research of Confucianism.On one hand, Tu Wei-ming carried on critical inherit and creative transformation to Confucianist tradition resources as its thoughts foundation. On the other hand, based on Confucianist comprehensive humanism to carry on deep reflection and theory abandoned of the single modernity, Western-centrism as well as anthropocentrism as the characters of the mentality of Enligtenment, and regards industry East Asia as one kind of new modernity pattern which appears under the Confucianist ethics influence. He constructs"cultural China"three significant worlds, actively promote"dialogue of civilizations", devotes in"the third phase of the development of Confucianism", makes the very great effort for Confucianism world. Cheng Zhong-ying makes" ontology " and "interpretation" organic integration, created"Onto—Hermeneutics"system. He propagated the core value of China and the West philosophy particularly Confucianist philosophy, discusses"fusion culture"and"conflict culture", and advocates"civilized rationality","dialogue of civilizations"instead of "cultural conflict", proposed"New Neo-Confucianism"and"After Post-modern age", shows Chinese classical and the West modernity altogether melts, in order to develop a personal and group interaction whole ethics , realizes truly reconstruction of Chinese philosophy.
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