yamen
Sign in to saveAlso known as ya men, gwan-a (Korean)
thumb|right|Floor plan of the yamen at [[Shaoxing Fu, Zhejiang Province, 1803.]] thumb|right|The entry gate of the yamen of the Nguyễn dynasty period [[Tuần phủ of the Tuyên Quang province and the blockhaus of the lính cơ in Tuyên Quang, Tonkin, French Indochina.]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, yamen is referenced by 174 other articles, and connects out to pinyin, xunfu and Vietnam.
It is catalogued under the topic Government of Imperial China.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
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- The former yamen in Kowloon Walled City Park, Hong Kong.
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- yámén / guānyá
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- Gê-mn̂g / koaⁿ-gê
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- yamun
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- Quan nha / Nha môn
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- 官衙 / 衙門 / 牙門
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Overview
- The yamen runner in the Ming dynasty
- General
- Classification
- ''Zao''
- ''Zhuang''
- ''Kuai''
- Social status
- Income
- Path into the occupation
- Paper ''yamen'' runner
- After 1911
- Notable ''yamen''s
- References
thumb|right|Floor plan of the yamen at [[Shaoxing Fu, Zhejiang Province, 1803.]] thumb|right|The entry gate of the yamen of the Nguyễn dynasty period [[Tuần phủ of the Tuyên Quang province and the blockhaus of the lính cơ in Tuyên Quang, Tonkin, French Indochina.]]
A yamen (; IPA: ) was the administrative office or residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China, Korea, and Vietnam. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yamen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.