Tattooing emerged in Hong Kong in the mid-20th century as a service catering to Western soldiers and sailors passing through the then British colony.
Tattooing emerged in Hong Kong in the mid-20th century as a service catering to Western soldiers and sailors passing through the then British colony.
The demand gave rise to East-meets-West tattoo parlours where customers could choose to be inked with “mystical and exotic” symbols of the East, such as Chinese dragons and phoenixes, or stick with traditional Western motifs like crosses, skulls and daggers.

A new generation of practitioners – many of whom are women – are paying homage to traditional Chinese culture in their own ways. In doing so, they have created a tattoo genre that is essentially the antithesis of triad-style ink.
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