Although numerous changes are going on in Chinatown, especially with the new Gold Line opening soon, the Silk Road traditions of dim sum ("touch the heart") and yum cha ("drinking tea" as a social ...

But Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, author of The Sum of Small Things, says a new cultural elite is on the rise: the aspirational class.

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-691-16273-7 ...

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. Published in May of 2017. For a few years now I’ve been trying to make sense of life in a small college town.