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   Jan 1, 2001 · 3.80. 879 ratings136 reviews. 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. She is further isolated by the vicious gossip of her neighbors ...

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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. It transcends any narrow categorisation, however, never lapsing into preaching and extending its reach with a number of fine character portraits and a vivid evocation of life in a small coastal town.

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   Mar 18, 2024 · An East-facing Window. The Butcher’s Wife, by Li Ang. Li Ang was inspired to write The Butcher’s Wife after reading about a trial of a woman from mainland China who was accused of murdering and butchering her husband. The article was from Shanghai in the 1930s. Li was most struck not by the sensational elements of the crime, but by the ...

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   Dec 20, 2023 · March 21, 2012. Edited by ImportBot. import new book. April 1, 2008. Created by an anonymous user. Imported from Scriblio MARC record. The butcher's wife and other stories by Li, Ang, 1995, Cheng & Tsui Co. edition, in English.

   • Author: K. C. Leung, Li Ang, Howard Goldblatt

   • Publish Year: 1995

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   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 ».

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   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. Li Ang is the pen name for a Taiwanese feminist writer born in 1952, and this, her first novel, caused a scandal in Taiwan due ...

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   • The Butcher's Wife is a good book. Set in a rural community, it tells the story of a young woman's struggles as the new wife of a man with vicious tastes. Her torment is compounded by the locals who gossip about her screams and believe her troubles to be those of her own making.

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   • The Butcher’s Wife tells the story of a young woman's struggles as the new wife of a man with vicious tastes. She is tormented by the locals who gossip about her screams and believe her troubles to be of her own making. Driven to madness by his cruelty, she kills him with his own meat cleaver.

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   Are all butchers destined for Hell?

   • According to an old Chinese belief, all butchers are destined for hell—an eternity of torment by the animals they have dispatched. Lin Shi, isolated, despairing, and finally driven to madness, fittingly kills him with his own instrument—a meat cleaver.

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   A Taste of South Africa with the Kosher Butcher’s Wife Sharon Lurie,2019-06-01 After highly successful outings with her first two books, Sharon Lurie, aka the Kosher Butcher’s Wife, decided that it was time to make it official and combine the influences of her culinary heritage as both a kosher cook and a proud South African.