First impressions, they say, count for everything. This may be true in some cases, especially those in which one doesn"t have to probe. Fashion shows, circus extravagan-zas, any Michael Bay movie...skin deepis about as deep as you need to go.But as a first-timer in China,half-amused, gog-gle-eyed, I was aware that I had to wait and wait. There were going to be several explanatory notes at the end of every day;even the footnotes here require footnotes.Annotate, and wait.