"In those days ordinary folk could go into the Governor-General's Office; you just had to tell the policeman at the entrance who you were going to see. But you couldn't go in there barefoot or in sandals, or wearing a singlet," says an old man in his eighties who lives near Hengyang Road, pulling the cigarette out of his mouth and pointing towards the Presidential Palace as he speaks.
「那時小老百姓可以進總督府找人，只要跟門口警察說一聲就好，但不能打赤腳、穿拖鞋，也不能穿便衫」，居住在衡陽路附近一位八旬老人，拔出口中香菸指指總統府說道。