Professor Zheng Yongnian of the National University of Singapore once criticized the current state of social science research in China, stating that “various western-imported doctrines are now flooding Chinese social science research. Many people love to talk about ‘this -ism’ and ‘that -ism’, but what they have actually learned are only forms and concepts, but not the essence of western social science.” This is because “most of the social scientists and thinkers we see today are the products of the European transformation. That is to say, their theories and knowledge are derived from the observation and study of the European transformation.” However, “China’s transformation is the most enormous in human history, but so far, no social science theory has been produced in relation to it. Chinese social science researchers can never build a science that can explain Chinese social phenomena, or Chinese social science if they simply accept western theories alone.” He concludes that “to build China’s own social science, it is necessary to avoid Americanisation or westernisation of Chinese thinking” (Zheng 2009).