ABSTRACT
Today, no one need starve in Peking. Plenty of near-slum housing remains, but there are virtually no beggars or prostitutes and almost certainly no drug peddlers on the streets, and I personally do not know of a single bordello or gaming house in town. This absence of vice in itself makes Peking an unusual twentieth century city. More extraordinarily, it is a city without privately owned cars, without churches . . . without commercial advertising and without any night life . . .
