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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.

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   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.

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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.

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   Nov 17, 1986 · Book Review : Tortured Woman in a Sadistic Marriage. By CAROLYN SEE. Nov. 17, 1986 12 AM PT. The Butcher’s Wife by Li Ang. Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Ellen Yeung (Northpoint:...

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   The Butcher's Wife Li Ang,Ang Li,2002 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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   • 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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   What is The Butcher's Cookbook?

   • The Butcher's Cookbook is a collaboration where 50 Australian butchers were invited to contribute two recipes each, along with a profile of themselves and their shops. The concept of the book was to bring the skill and passion of Australian butchers and their favorite recipes together.

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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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   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 eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality...