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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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   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.

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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. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism

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   Abstract. A s a bridge between the physical environment and literary texts, eco-criticism—a term coined by William Rueckert in 1978—is composed of two parts: “Eco is derived from the Greek oikos (home, nature) and criticism comes from kritikos (to judge)“ (Tsai, “Ecocriticism“ 347). Examining the meanings of “home“ and “place ...

6. 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...

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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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   • 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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   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...