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Jan 1, 2001 · The Butcher's Wife is about a woman, Lin Shi, in a small village in Taiwan who is sent off to marry a pig butcher by her uncle, Chen Jiangshui. Right from the start, she's traded like cattle, treated like goods: ownership of herself, her fate, her body is clearly not hers.
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Mar 18, 2024 · Pig-Butcher Chen is a notorious womanizer, frequenter of prostitutes, drunk, and gambler. He is also a sadist. His intimate relationship with death makes him a doomed, taboo figure, and he is haunted by visions of hell and the souls of the animals he kills. He brutalizes his wife and starves her.
Inspired by a real case from the 1930s, The Butcher's Wife depicts the fate of a young woman trapped by both her individual circumstances and the confines of traditional Chinese society.
Sep 11, 2009 · The butcher's wife = Sha fu : a novel. by. Li, Ang, 1952-. Publication date. 1986. Publisher. San Francisco : North Point Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled.
THE BUTCHER'S WIFE. A magnificently gory morality tale, set in a Taiwan village of the 1930's and based on the true-life story of an equally bloodcurdling Shanghai murder case.
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The Butcher's Wife. Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his...
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Dec 20, 2023 · Imported from Scriblio MARC record. The butcher's wife and other stories by Li, Ang, 1995, Cheng & Tsui Co. edition, in English.