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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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2. archive.org › details › butcherswifeshaf00lianrichThe butcher's wife = Sha fu : a novel : Li, Ang, 1952- : Free ...

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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.

3. eastasianliteratureintranslation.com › 2024/03/18The Butcher’s Wife, by Li Ang - East Asian Literature in ...

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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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   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.

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 41490635Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's "The Butcher's Wife"

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   In the following discussion I will examine Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife , which presents the oppression of women in terms of sexual depredation. I will argue that it is a feminist novella that discusses the socio-economic nature of women's victimization. The terms "feminism" and "feminist," however, demand to be clarified at the outset.

6. www.cuhk.edu.hk › rct › pdfBy Li Ang Translated by Fan Wen-mei & John Minford

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   LINSHI'S MURDER of her husband, Butcher Chen, created something of a sensation in Deer Town. The press and the police both pointed to an unidentified lover. But it was popularly believed to have been an act of retribution, the spirit of her dead mother coming to take vengeance.

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   Is the Butcher's wife based on a true story?

   • In Chinese literary history women's writing has always been considered sentimental and trivial, circumscribed by love and the domestic domain. The Butcher's Wife is an attempt to break away feminist work. The Butcher's Wife is based on a homicide that occurred in Shanghai in the 1930s. Li Ang's novella describes the tortured life of Lin Shi, an

   Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's 'The Butcher's Wife'

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   Why is sex important in Li Ang's the Butcher's wife?

   • Sex also provides the grounds for Li Ang's literary feminism. It is the basis upon which she exposes the inequality between the sexes and women's oppression within a patriarchal society. In the following discussion I will examine Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife , which presents the oppression of women in terms of sexual depredation.

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   How does the Butcher's wife relate to patriarchal culture?

   • patriarchal culture by closely relating hunger to sex in The Butcher's Wife. This point is carried to extremes in the episode of Lin's mother selling her body to a soldier for two rice balls. At first the act is depicted in language bright red and all aglow with a greedy light" (Li 7). The repeated occur-

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   What is a good book about women literature?

   • "Toward a Feminist Poetics. The New Fernamt Criticism: Essays on Women Literature . Theory. Ed. Elaine Showalter. New York: Pantheon, 1985. 125-43. Economic Growth, and Cultural Change." Comparative Perspectives of Third World Women: The Impact of Race, Sex, and Class. New York: Praeen, 1980. 96-122. Yao, Esther S. Lee. Chinese Women: Past &.

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8. www.researchgate.net › publication › 304801714_AngAng Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism

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   This paper aims at an analysis of the sexual descriptions and obscene languages rendered in Howard Goldblatt and Ellen Yeung's English translation of Li Ang's Sha Fu (1983) as The Butcher's...