Central and Eastern European studies in China used to be part of Sovietology/Kremlinology. After 1991, Central and Eastern European countries broke away from the former Soviet bloc and emerged as an independent entity on the world stage. As a consequence, the study of those countries was also separated from Sovietology/Kremlinology and became a discernable object in international politics studies. Historically, Central and Eastern European studies in China had two prominent features—inconsistency and political-ness, which resulted in the significant changes in such aspects as the designation of research subject, research teams, research content and research methodology. As Central and Eastern European countries are more fully integrated into Europe/the E.U. and the great transformation enters a new stage, the Europe-ness of Central and Eastern European studies has achieved increasing significance. Although the ontological study of Central and Eastern countries still has its plausibility and necessity, researchers have to take the Europe-ness of those countries seriously. As a “legacy” of erstwhile geopolitics, the whole of Central and Eastern European countries used to be taken as an independent research object, but this is going to decline gradually.