BEIJING -- "Pig." That was the word printed on her T-shirt in Chinese -- an enormous design taking up the entire front. "PIG." "Do you know what your shirt says?" my dad called out to the stranger ...

Despite cultural taboos, women have been getting tattoos for centuries. In ancient Egypt, women got tattoos as a form of beauty and as a status symbol. Permanent ink was seen for the first time in the ...

The New York tattoo artist Sumok Kim, who works at Chronic Ink in Brooklyn, has seen a surge in demand for Asian history themed tattoos, from ancient Buddhas to dragons and Samurai warriors. Luxury ...

Whether as a hobby or a career, tattooing requires commitment. Sitting for a tattoo can be painful, and the resulting ink lasts forever. It’s odd, then, that the prevailing stereotype surrounding ...

Lloyd Suh’s play about the first Chinese woman to arrive in America premieres in Michigan. A fourteen-year-old Chinese girl came to America 190 years ago – said to be the first female Chinese ...