The study of Public Administration arose in America as part of the political culture of Western modernity to provide a conceptual framework for understanding and practicing politics. It reflected an attempt to replace "irrational" politics with objective and scientific administration. This conceptual framework was embraced by Chinese intellectuals in the wake of the May Fourth movement. As a result, the Guomindang's Central Politics School was reorganized into a regular university cultivating professional officials. The majority of the school's graduates became pure civil servants who, however, had no ability to handle Chinese political reality. Only a few of them were capable of developing effective modern Chinese statecraft by using indigenous resources. Modern Chinese statecraft, therefore, represents an alternative conceptual framework of politics that has the potential to escape from the predicament of scientized politics.