The closure of national parks, museums and monuments during the federal shutdown hasn’t just disappointed school children and vacationing Americans, it’s also provided a headache for Chinese tourists in the U.S. taking advantage of a seven-day Chinese national holiday. “It’s disastrous to come to the U.S. and find that the Statue of Liberty is closed,” says Z. John Zhang, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The national holiday in China lasts from Oct. 1 to Oct. 7, stretching even longer than the three-day Chinese New Year. It’s a time of year, he says, when many Chinese ... (full story)