Xiaozi today probably have different inclinations. "I think you should leave what Mao said behind," said Shi, who usually goes by Aviva Shey, her English name. "I think what you want to know about Xiaozi is very different from what he meant." True, Mao's ideas about class were based on the way people earned their living, not on taste or lifestyle. But isn't there some kind of important connection here? "Well, I choose not to see it," she told me.

当今的小资可能有不同的倾向。“我认为你应该把毛主席的话放在一边。” 庄施说，她通常用英文名字，叫阿维娃·谢伊。“我想你想知道的小资和他的意思有天壤之别。”的确，毛泽东关于阶级的思想是基于人们谋生的方式而不是他们的品味或生活方式。但是，其中没有某些重要关联吗？“嗯，我宁愿不去看破。”她告诉我。

Watching well-heeled shoppers queue for designer cupcakes in the shadow of a massive new Comme des Gar?ons store in Beijing, it's hard to imagine that a scant 40 years ago, a basic commodity like shampoo might have been denounced as a decadent bourgeois splurge. And yet, during the radical and paranoid days of the Cultural Revolution, any hint that someone gained spiritual or emotional fulfillment from material possessions was suspect.

在高耸的Comme des Gar?ons北京店的阴影下，看着穿着讲究的消费者排队买精致纸杯蛋糕，很难想象，在40年前，像洗头膏这样的基本商品都可能被谴责为资产阶级的腐朽奢侈。更有甚者，在文革激进和偏执的日子里，如果有谁稍稍暗示出通过物质享受而追求精神或情感上的满足，都要受到怀疑。

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