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Definitions of yamen in various dictionaries:
The office or residence of an official in the Chinese Empire.
noun - the residence of a Chinese public official
YAMEN - A yamen (ya-men; simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: yámén; WadeGiles: ya2-men2; Manchu: yamun) was the administrative office or r...
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| Chinese official's office |
| At last you get some response from this for the mandarin |
| Mandarin's residence |
| Chinese official's residence |
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| Yamen, Nei Mongol, CHINA |
| Yamen, Lovech, BULGARIA |
| Yamen, Central, GHANA |
| Yamen, East Sepik, PAPUA NEW GUINEA |
| Yamen description |
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A yamen (ya-men; simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: yámén; WadeGiles: ya2-men2; Manchu: yamun) was the administrative office or residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China. A yamen can also be any governmental office or body headed by a mandarin, at any level of government: the offices of one of the Six Ministries is a yamen, but so is a prefectural magistracy. The term has been widely used in China for centuries, but appeared in English during the Qing dynasty. * Within a local yamen, the bureaucrat administered the government business of the town or region. Typical responsibilities of the bureaucrat includes local finance, capital works, judging of civil and criminal cases, and issuing decrees and policies. * Typically, the bureaucrat and his immediate family would live in a residence attached to the yamen. This was especially so during the Qing dynasty, when imperial law forbade a person from taking government office in his native province. * Yamens va |