October 2005 Volume 20, Number 2 : Performance Literature (2) Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Textual Representations of the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Drama Yuzan ji (The Jade Hairpin) Andrew Lo View the eCompanion The Many Shapes of Medieval Chinese Plays: How Texts Are Transformed to Meet the Needs of Actors, Spectators, Censors, and Readers Wilt Idema My Mother Has a Television, Does Yours? Transformation and Secularization in an Ewe Funeral Drum Tradition James Burns View the eCompanion On the Concept of “Definitive Text” in Somali Poetry Martin Orwin Text and Performance in Africa Karen Barber From Oral Performance to Paper-Text to Cyber-Edition John Miles Foley Performance, Visuality, and Textuality: The Case of Japanese Poetry Haruo Shirane The Culture of Play: Kabuki and the Production of Texts Andrew Gerstle View the eCompanion The How of Literature Ruth Finnegan Supplemental Materials About the Authors