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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.
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...
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.
Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism. Chapter; pp 165–184; Cite this chapter
- Kathryn Yalan Chang
- 2013
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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