{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "chin-ban",
 "type": "story",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Chin ban",
  "said": "Burma, the 1960s"
 },
 "region": [
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "c20"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1962,
  "to": 1970,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Banned by the Union Revolutionary Council"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Burma's socialist government banned Chin facial tattooing in the 1960s; missionaries had been discouraging it for decades already.",
  "story": "The practice ended inside a generation. The women who carry it were tattooed as teenagers before the ban and are now in their seventies and eighties, and they are photographed constantly.\n\n*Inference —* a ban works fastest on a mark that is made once, in youth, by a specialist. Stop the specialists for twenty years and there is nobody left who has done it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "รัฐบาลสังคมนิยมพม่าสั่งห้ามการสักหน้าของชาวชินในทศวรรษ 1960 ก่อนหน้านั้นมิชชันนารีก็กีดกันมานาน"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "chin-ming",
   "as": "What was banned.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-chin-people",
  "s:wp-tattooing-in-myanmar"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-chin-people"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "ban",
  "women"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}