t is hard to fathom that only 40 years ago, Shenzhen was a sleepy fishing village that was home to about 300,000 people. Fishermen would work all day at Deep Bay, a body of water between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, taking their catch with them when the skies fell to a powdery orange. Then came the turn of the new millennium, and Shenzhen developed into its own—a subway system emerged in 2004, while affordable hotpot meals, ostentatious 24-hour massage parlours and kitschy tourist attractions such
