Monument to the People's Heroes
The reason Leys believes Peking was destroyed was because it had a lot of imperial tradition. He refers to the Monument to the People's Heroes as the "Maoist rape of the ancient capital". The monument is placed in Tiananmen Square, and is more than a hundred feet high.According to Leys, the monument "disrupts and annihilates the energy-field of the old capital in order to give its power a foundation of prestige."