Abstract:

Political science can provide a given national political system with regional political knowledge.With the nation-state building in modern China, Chinese political science has gone through four stages.First, it came into China as an outer political theory.Second, politics emerged and stemmed from traditional Chinese knowledge with the building of local political science genealogy.Thirdly, as an approach to interpret political thought, especially with the spread and interpretations of the democratic republic thought, political science acquired its ideological formation.And finally, in China political science developed from a kind of thought to an academic discipline when those who obtained political Ph.D.in USA or Europe came back to China, founding departments of political science in universities, writing their political works and establishing their theories.

Key words: political science, political research, political thought