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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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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.
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 22, 1996 · The story of "The Butcher's Wife" (1983), based on an actual incident which occurred in Shanghai in the 1930s, resonates with all battered Chinese women awakened to Western concepts of feminism; it stirs passions that anticipate those surrounding the notorious Bobbitt depennation of 1993 in the U.S.
- Leung, K.C.
- World Literature Today
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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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