东亚是当今世界最具发展活力与潜力的地区，儒教伦理的演变及其在东亚现代化进程中的积极作用，新儒教伦理在东亚国家现代化进程中的渗透是对马克斯·韦伯关于新教伦理命题的挑战，也是对战后西方主流派现代化理论和发展理论的重构，它预示着东方现代文明发展的一种新方式。 East Asia is the most dynamic and potential area in the world. The evolution of Confucian ethics and its positive role in the process of East Asian modernization, the infiltration of Neo-Confucian ethics into the modernization of East Asian countries is a challenge to Max Weber’s propositions on Protestant ethics It is also a reconstruction of the modernization theory and development theory of the mainstream Western schools after the war. It indicates a new way for the development of modern civilization in the East.