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.]]
Key facts
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- The former yamen in Kowloon Walled City Park, Hong Kong.
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- / 牙门 / 官衙
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- yámén / guānyá
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- Gê-mn̂g / koaⁿ-gê
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- Quan nha / Nha môn
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- 官衙 / 衙門 / 牙門
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- 官衙
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via Wikipedia infobox
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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.