Tattooed Life
(WorldNews China)

Li Wenshi (2nd L) takes a walk with her grandson in her village on April 21. [Photo/Xinhua] It is in her kitchen beside a wood stove that Ken Guofang, a 91-year-old woman from the Derung ethnic group with tattoos on her face, tells her story. She doesn't speak Mandarin and needs a local youth to translate for her. Smoke from the wood fire fills her eyes with water but she doesn't bother to stop and wipe them. "I got the facial tattoos before I could remember anything," Ken said. "It was my mother's decision. She said it was a tradition among Derung women." Fading memories Ken, one of only 20 women still alive from the Derung ethnic group that have facial...