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Jan 1, 2001 · 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 new young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she screams, the more he likes it.
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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.
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.
The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories. Ang Li. Cheng & Tsui, 1995 - Fiction - 245 pages. Li Ang's highly charged fiction has brought her worldwide attention. Preview this book ».
The Butcher's Wife. Li Ang, Ang Li. Peter Owen, 2002 - Fiction - 142 pages. Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady...
THE BUTCHER'S WIFE. by Ang Li ‧RELEASE DATE: Nov. 20, 1986. 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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Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism. Chapter. pp 165–184. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. East Asian Ecocriticisms. Kathryn Yalan Chang. Part of the book series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment ( (LCE)) 287 Accesses. Abstract.
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