Chinese and foreign scholars’ studies of China’s participation in the U.N. peacekeeping have followed closely the expansion of China’s military diplomacy and the degree of China’s participation in peacekeeping affairs. From the 1980s to the 1990s, China’s attitude toward U.N. peacekeeping shifted from non-participation to limited participation, and the academia focused on explaining China’s attitudinal change. In the early years of the 21^st century, after China expanded and diversified its participation in the U.N. peacekeeping operations, the motivation for its growing activeness became the focus of analysis. In recent years, as China is becoming the backbone of U.N. peacekeeping affairs, scholars have started to discuss with great enthusiasm the China approach to peacekeeping and the possibility of establishing “Chinese Peacekeeping Studies.” Generally speaking, current studies of China’s participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations are policy-oriented. Meanwhile, practical issues involving peacekeeping also have academic values, so Chinese and foreign scholars will benefit by adopting such methods as process-tracing and in-depth interviews and by conducting extensive exchanges with Chinese personnel who have participated in the U.N. peacekeeping operations.