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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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2. 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.

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

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   Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism. Chapter; pp 165–184; Cite this chapter

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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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   • 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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   What are some good books about gender and slaughter?

   • In Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature. London: U of Virginia P, 2000. 58–74. Parry, Jovian. “Gender and Slaughter in Popular Gastronomy.” Feminism & Psychology 20.3 (2010): 381–96. Robertson, Roland and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization, II. New York: MTM and Routledge, 2006.

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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.