Once derided as "spiritual pollution" and bourgeois backwardness, beauty has become bankable in communist China. Cosmetic surgery and beauty pageants are booming with capitalist, while sales of cosmetics have increased four-fold over the past decade.

※ Maoist - 毛沢東主義（者）。
　　nip and tuck - 五分五分。
　　derided - 嘲笑する。あざ笑う。
　　backwardness - 遅れ。
　　bankable - 確実に利益をもたらすもの。
　　beauty pageants - 美人コンテスト。
　　capitalist - 資本家。