Shaoguang Wang

　　Department of Government & Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong

　　Abstract: The article reviews the development of political science in China in the last century, especially in the last 30 years. It shows that the discipline has gone through two stages, namely, uncritical learning and gullible emulating. It is entering a new stage: conscious indigenization of political science. It argues that indigenization is not an easy task even for indigenous academics. Therefore a project of indigenization requires a conscious and active effort on their part. Without critical introspection, indigenization is impossible.

　　Keywords: political science, Chinese politics, learning, indigenization