leaders are universally spoken of with respect . . . but these men are approachable and subservience toward them is completely lacking.” Also impressive were the simplicity of life and clothing, and the lack of beggars and desperate poverty. Service also noticed the similarity in clothes and manners, at least ostensibly, between men and women. He even remarked on the absence of the “spooning couples seen in parks or quiet streets in Chungking,” echoing the activist who had commented that “Yan’an was really not a sexy town.”
