Karen Chan describes herself as a “neon nomad ... a far cry from the huge flashing signs that used to protrude horizontally from the sides of Hong Kong buildings, advertising everything ...

Neon signs, invented by a French engineer in 1910, started lighting up Hong Kong's streets in the 1960s ... shaping and joining glass tubes into calligraphic Chinese characters with a six-flame ...

But sixty years later, times are changing. Back then, Hong Kong’s streets embraced a symphony of colourful neon signs. They represented prosperity and the raw commercialism of ambitious ...