“…Historically, however, the interest in politics of Chinese people has been neatly explained in three concise periods (Zhong, ; Zhong & Kim, ; Zhong et al., ). During the first period, prior to the 1949 Chinese Communist victory, most Chinese people were considered apathetic to politics (Zhong, ; Zhu et al., ). In the second period, from the 1950s to the end of the Mao era, approximately 1978, interest in politics may have increased, even in the Chinese countryside, primarily because of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mobilization and Mao's efforts to make the Chinese people class conscious (Townsend, ; Zhong, ; Zhong & Kim, ; Zhong et al., ; Zhu et al., ).…”