The theatre has been given an obscure and tricky role to play in Taiwan‟s Chinese-speaking
society. Although it is now officially recognised as an indispensable sector of the national
curriculum, its position within an island that has gone through a long history of migration,
colonisation, dictatorship, and democratisation is still uncertain. This essay investigates the
relationship between theatre and education in modern Taiwan, with a special focus on two
periods: the Japanese and the KMT rule before the 1980s. By contextualising the
development of the socio-educational role of the theatre, the author intends to paint the
landscape of how theatre was perceived and used to instruct or inspire during the twentieth
century in Taiwan, which paved the way for the arrival of different types of educational
theatre.
Relation:
Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, 11(9), 205-223 亞太藝術教育學報，11(9)，205-223
