My understanding of Emerson and Confucius

The western societies stimulated their interests in the culture of ancient China since the 16th century,mainly by the wide spread of The Travels of Marco Polo.So in a very long period, the oriental culture,represented by China was regarded sa the diversion for leisure times.Untile the 17th century did the Europeans began to realize the value of China's cultures.However,it is just because of the Europeans that the Americans began to know about it.
The influences of China's culture to American's can be traced to tje very beginning of American literature when it became independent.Although the China's culture came to western earlier,the actural effects produced in the 19th century.It has greater influences to the Transcendentalists,such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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