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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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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.
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.
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
- Sep 22, 1996
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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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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.