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From Shanghai: “A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for scratching insults across the bodies of three women with a needle dipped in ink.” The court gave him a two year reprieve. If his behavior is good he will get life imprisonment instead.
China has the death penalty for over 60 offenses, half of them being non-violent.
The China Daily has an article about tattooing in China. Although tattoos have played an important cultural role in China for over 1,000 years, recently, in the 1950s, they began to become associated with crime.
Today groups like the China Association of Tattoo Artists are seeking to reshape that image by improving tattoo safety and guaranteeing artist quality.
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Hanzismatter.com analyses people’s Chinese tattoo designs. A few of the mistranslations include “fraud” which the wearer probably was told was “blessing.” Just a suggestion, but you may you to run your design by a real expert before having it permanently inked into your skin.
I found a cool website for a Japanese tattoo studio. They do some very clean designs which you can see in their online gallery. They also have a searchable database full of photos of thousands of tattoos.
“I decided to do something in China first, and I realised tattooing pigs would be a good introduction to the country. It’s low-tech,” Delvoye, 40, told Reuters.
Here is an interesting article from Reuters about an artist tattooing pigs in China. This isn’t a new idea, you can see pictures of a tattooed pig he did at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art.
Here are some images from the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in May you can view on this Chinese News Site. It depicts full body tattoo designs on Japanese women. Traditional Japanese tattooing is done by hand by tapping the ink into the skin with a bamboo stick.
