Contemporary tattooing culture in China

Close up tattoo machine. Man creating picture on hand with it in salon.

Tattooing, like other health behaviour, is embedded in cultural and social background.

Dr. Xiang Zhao was interviewed by CNN about Chinese tattooing culture and practice. This report highlights historical, social, and legal issues behind tattooing in contemporary Chinese society.

Here is the recently published news article on CNN Style: Inside China's crackdown on tattoo culture.

Other tattoo research articles by Dr. Zhao and his colleagues:

Tattoos, modernisation, and the nation-state: Dai Lue bodies as parchments for symbolic narratives of the self and Chinese society

Synergistic relationships between tobacco smoking, tattooing, religiosity, and spirituality among Chinese Buddhist adolescents

Intention to be tattooed among Chinese minority adolescents: Predictions from two models