Golden Week
The Suboptimalist came to Shanghai last week. He arrived on the first day of the golden week vacation and left on the last day. Perhaps in his mind, Shanghai will forever be a world trapped in holiday, filled with tourists from distant provinces, where little kids are dragged onto the subway by middle-aged women too old to have birthed them, needlessly and desperately pushing each body out of their way in a vein hope to wrestle for seats already taken — a Shanghai so different from the one I imagine.
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