From the transcendent Hanzi Smatter comes word of a research project some of you folks might be interested in.

Mariah Miller, a graduate student at the Global Studies Programme (which is a joint project of the German University of Freiburg, the South African University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Indian Jawaharlal Nehru University) is looking for people with Chinese character tattoos to fill in a questionnaire (that's a .doc file, just so you know).

Simple questions, yes-no answers or of the "very/somewhat/not very/not at all" variety, like:

8. If you are not Chinese, please rate your level of interest in China before you got your tattoo on a scale of one to ten where ten is “extremely interested” and zero is “zero interest in China and Chinese culture.”

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It's for her Master's thesis.

Return to the scholar (or ask what's going on with the project) at shetravelsalone[at]hotmail.com.