Hong Kong was no stranger to decorative lights when Tsim Sha Tsui East first started to dress up for the festive winter in the 1980s, but it was the seasonal sparkle that drew unprecedented crowds to the tune of hundreds of thousands.
“At first there weren’t many lights,” recalled Terence Wong Kim-shan, a long-time designer of the district’s decorations. “So when you make Christmas lights that come in many colours, many people would come.”
In time, the number...
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