Abstract

This article deals on the one hand with the direct influence of the May Fourth Movement on the development of psychology as a scientific study in China, and on the other hand, with the indirect influence of World War 1 on psychology as it was established in Europe.Following the urgent call of “Mr Science” during and after the May Fourth Movement, Western psychology was imported on a large scale. This Westerm import-psychology gradually became an independent scientific field of study,institutionalized and embedded in universities, and infused with scientific rigor. During the period when psychology as a science started to develop in China,the in Europe prevalent analytical psychology was strongly influenced by farreaching WW1 events occurring in China.The mutual influencing has resulted today in a merging of ancient Chinese and Western psychological paradigms.