Weinstein wrote the introduction. The plays are: The play stars
Yoshiko Yamaguchi a.k.a. Li Xianglan. It is the longest of the three. This play uses Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, and it is a series of flashbacks. The plays were not intended to be played with Mandarin subtitles, though some productions in Taipei use them. The book also has a language chart between English, Mandarin, Taiwanese Min-Nan, and Hakka. The editor states in the acknowledgements section is that the intention is that the English version plays could be performed. Tarryn Li-Min Chun () of the
University of Notre Dame stated that non-Taiwanese groups would face difficulty producing these plays, despite the assistance the book provides, due to cultural nuances. ==Reception==