Within the history of Chinese psychology, this new academic discipline has always been under strong political pressure, and was attacked twice, once in 1958 and again during the `Cultural Revolution'. However, in their scientific work, Chinese psychologists have been very interested in all the different approaches of contemporary western schools of psychology. The diverging Chinese viewpoints on theories of psychology should be considered the result of these difficult conditions for academic work.
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