论文从中国现代儿童戏剧的产生谈起,着重论述从1917年新文化运动开始,到1949年新中国成立前,上海地区儿童戏剧三十多年来的发展变化和趋势。以有限的篇幅初步勾勒出在激烈变革、硝烟弥漫的时代大背景下上海儿童戏剧的生存境况、发展阶段、独特的功用及其所呈现出的典型特征。 The essay starts from the generation of modern Chinese children’s drama and focuses on the changes and trends in the development of children’s drama in Shanghai over the past thirty years from the beginning of the New Culture Movement in 1917 to the founding of New China in 1949. In a limited space, it initially outlines the living conditions, stages of development, unique functions and the typical features of Shanghai’s children’s drama under the background of drastic changes and pervasive smoke and smoke.