Abstract: This paper examines critically the trend of thought that many scholars have been searching for the internal modernity in the Chinese recent history at home and abroad since the 1970 s , in order to reveal its methodology characteristics. The author believes that the alleged “modernity of thinking an idea” in the interior of Chinese history, which has been founded by many scholars, is the invention of these scholars’ thinking on the history of China, rather than reflects the historical truth, and morever the thinking itself was largely a product of Western influence.