As a discipline, the history of science is stepping into a new period in China we call as "re-institutionalization of the history of science" In this paper, we give an examination on the developments of the history of science in western states and in China, to make clear of the necessity of the re-institutionalization of the history of science in China Further more, we discern two patterns of institutionalization of a learning discipline, the authority pattern and the power pattern We consider that the process of the re-institutionalization of history of science should start with the power pattern, and than transfer into the authority pattern when an effective authority structure of the history of science in China is
