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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 · 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.
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...
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...
In 1983, her novel "The Butcher's Wife" received the United Newspaper's literary prize and made her famous on both sides of the Taiwan strait. The work is a powerful indictment of male...
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