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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.

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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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   THE BUTCHER'S WIFE. by Ang Li ‧RELEASE DATE: Nov. 20, 1986. A magnificently gory morality tale, set in a Taiwan village of the 1930's and based on the true-life story of an equally bloodcurdling Shanghai murder case.

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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.

   Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism

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   Taiwanese writer Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) (1983), 1 reveal-ing the entangled connections between gender politics and the fear of the natural environment (ecophobia) through the examination of gender, food animals, and dreams. The Reification of Taiwanese Ecocriticism