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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 · This group, led by the treacherous Auntie Ah-wang, rivals Pig-Butcher Chen in their capacity for cruelty. Li’s portrayal of the interior lives of the abusers and the abused is relentlessly graphic; Chen’s butchering of animals and his violent attacks on his wife are savage, carnal, and bloodthirsty.
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.
Aug 26, 2019 · The Butcher’s Wife depicts a woman who, due to her traumatized childhood and psychological condition caused by her husband and neighbours, kills her husband, a butcher, and dismembers the body the way he does pigs.
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.
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Books. 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...
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