Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China’s Cultural Revolution, could make the “Four Olds” (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish. And whether one uses “Yangon” or “Rangoon” to identify Myanmar/Burma’s capital, the place still remains what the British travel writer Norman Lewis described as “imperial and rectilinear…built by a people who refused compromise with the East.”
但是过去的一切永远无法被真正抹去。即使是毛泽东本人及其在中国文化大革命时期释放的狂潮也不能使“四旧”（旧风俗、旧文化、旧习惯、旧思想）完全消失。无论人们用“Yangon”还是“Rangoon”来称呼缅甸的首都仰光，这个地方仍然如英国旅行作家诺曼·路易斯（Norman Lewis）所描述的那样是一个“由一群不愿向东方妥协的人民所建造的……自顾自发展的帝国”。