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So, We Performed

Theatre and the Taiwanese Avant-Garde, 1965

BY LESLEY MA

In 1965, a burgeoning group of young writers, photographers, and filmmakers in Taipei published Theatre, the first Chinese-language magazine dedicated to theater, film, and performance. Though the quarterly publication only survived nine issues over the course of three years, it signaled the arrival of new methods of image-making in the city's art scene, giving artists the…