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Abstract

The collection of Chinese vernacular literary books in the library affiliated with Keijo Imperial University(京城帝國大學) contains a handwritten collection of Yuandong Theater plays(遠東劇團劇本集). This is a play collection of 9 plays by the Yuandong Theater Troupe that was active in the occupied territory of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Yuandong Theater Troupe was a propaganda troupe that spread the ideology of the Japan cooperation regime and organization all the way to the Weixin Government(維新政府), the Damin Council(大民會), and Wang Jingwei(汪精衛) government in the occupied territory of China at the time. Until now, Chinese literature research field has not paid attention to literary works related to Japan cooperation, and related research has been almost taboo. However, research on propaganda theaters that cooperated with Japan, such as the Yuandong Theater Troupe, is a link that cannot be avoided when understanding the overall picture of Chinese history and literature during the Sino-Japanese War. Research on this should be conducted along with research on the achievements of Chinese literature at that time. Yuandong Theater Troupe toured rural areas in occupied China and mainly promoted anti-communism and the legitimacy of building a new China. The actors were Chinese, but Deng Ying(鄧英), who served as vice director, was Japanese. The troupe traveled by car and performed a crude one-act play on the stage of the truck's luggage compartment. The characters and plot in the play were simple and linear, and only served the purpose of ideological propaganda, and artistic perfection and achievement were not taken into consideration. Yuandong Theater Troupe Scripts was also the only book in the collection that represented the activities of Karashima Takeshi(辛島驍), the person who collected The collection of Chinese vernacular literary books, in the late colonial period. Karashima was a researcher who clearly understood the important themes of modern Chinese literature, such as ‘anti-feudal(反封建), anti-warlord(反軍閥), anti-imperialism(反帝國)’. However, on the other hand, he was a professor at Imperial University who took the lead in mobilizing the people of Koreans for war, and was also the president of the Joseon Theater Culture Association(朝鮮演劇文化協會), an organization to control Joseon's theater artists. He was also the one who faithfully performed the role of spreading the colonizer's ruling ideology.