Title: The History of Psychology in China: From a Colonizing Tool to a Modernizing Tool

Title: The History of Psychology in China: From a Colonizing Tool to a Modernizing Tool

Format of paper is as follows:

Introduction (roadmap of the paper): Topic/scope and thesis statement
Research question
Should answer this question with the thesis statement 
Thesis statement should include, time period, geographical location (As in the location in which the material within the paper is occurring) & brief evidences backed by sources

TOPIC: Paper should focus on the history of psychology in China spanning from the turn of the 20th century until the turn of the 21st century. Psychology, which is defined as the scientific study of behavior, is a relatively new discipline. China specifically, has an interesting history in the study of psychology due to the great influence both social and political factors had on the discipline. The paper should begin its focus in the early 1900s, when the promoting of psychology first began in China, it will span through the 1920s, the time that China began to develop modern science and education leading to psychology becoming its own independent scientific discipline there, and it will show the emergence and evolution of how this scientific discipline evolved throughout the century as a whole. The paper should mainly focus on how and why psychology became its own independent discipline in China, what social-political condition made this emergence of psychology possible, and how Chinese psychology was influenced, yet is still different from phycology in other parts of the world (especially western countries). As a whole, I would like to focus on how this discipline developed and progressed in China over the 20th century.