My tattoo

It reads 1996 2 25. This date is very special to me because it is my adoption date. The idea is that I wanted to mix the Chinese influence of the name stamp (印章 yìnzhāng) with the Western influence of the Arabic numerals (traditional Chinese numbers look very different).

New Ink, Old Temples

September 26th 2015
Hey everyone! I guess I should start off with saying that the most interesting part of my week was getting a tattoo. Yep, a real tattoo. I've been planning on getting this tattoo for a little over a year now, so it wasn't a on-the-spot thing at all, but I had been originally planning to wait until after graduation to get any tattoos. Yeah, that didn't quite work out. It started when Ian mention ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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