英文摘要
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Ding Shin Club of Changhua was founded in December 1923, and ended in August 1928, overarching in the prosperity of Taiwan New Drama (also called Cultural Drama) in Japanese colonial period, and yet its development has been cloudy so far. This paper aims to portray a total picture of Ding Shin Club's New Drama movement by first tracing its members' names as clues in order to clarify how the club was organized, and then its growing trajectory, and finally analyzing the features of its performance. After its establishment, Ding Shin Club of Changhua soon cooperated with Taiwan Cultural Association (TCA) to set up its subsidiary drama clubs like as Minshen Club of Beigang, Hsinguang Club of Hsinchu which employed drama as a vehicle to promote TCA's propaganda. The main features of Ding Shin Club can be depicted in terms of both its politics and art. Its young members were teamed up because of the political propaganda, and their activities came to an end also because of the political coercion. Because their drama activities were hardly separated from, and even were exceeded by political factors, along with the repression of colonial government, the life span of Ding Shin Club was not long enough to accommodate sufficient energy. However, limited historical materials can still reveal the features of this drama club. Inheriting from the style of "orating in play" of the civilized drama of China, Ding Shin Club applied it to the social problem paly of the May Fourth Movement, and further developed a dramatic effect called "the passive acting under policemen's surveillance". This is Ding Shin Club's creative inheritance and reproduction of Chinese dramatic arts, endeavoring to show the particular artistic styles of the colonized Taiwan. Therefore, Ding Shin Club's practices of drama demonstrate the spirit of purchasing national the self-determination as well as the artisitic production based on Taiwan's subjectivity.
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