A multidisciplinary approach combining the fruits of philosophy, history, anthropology, psychology, and other fields is common in the U.S., a practice that rigorously trained European sinologists of an older school tend to shake their heads at.
美國學術界又崇尚「科技訓練」（Multiple Discipline），往往將各門各派的社會科學理論（哲學、歷史、人類、考古、心理… … 等）應用到漢學研究上。於是歐洲傳統式的嚴謹考據，在此被林林總總、天馬行空的推論取代，惹得老一輩歐洲漢學家搖頭嘆氣，大大不以為然。