Consider this my annual obligatory “I’m-glad-I-wasn’t-travelling-in-China-during-Golden-Week” post. In 1999, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, AND to stimulate the economy, the government decreed that henceforth every man woman and child in China (that would be 1.35 billion of them) would get a 7-day holiday beginning on October 1. The […]