1. Read the following passage found in From Emperor to Citizen.
From my infancy I was accustomed to having people kowtow to me, particularly people over ten times my own age. They included old officials of the Ching Dynasty and the elders of my own clan, men in the court roes of the Ching Dynasty and officials of the Republic in Western dress.
Another strange thing which seemed quite normal at the time was the daily pomp."
After reading these sentences, the reader can most likely conclude that the speaker
