Look up: Yamen


  1. Yamen
    Ya'men noun [ Chin. ya a civil or military court + men a gate.] In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is t...
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  2. Yamen
    • (n.) In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated.
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  3. yamen
    (from the article `China`) ...imperial rule (though there were some petty officials on levels below the district). Because the members of the formal civil service level of the ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/y/2

  4. Yamen
    A yamen ({zh|s={{linktext|衙|门}|t={linktext|衙|門}|p={linktext|yá|mén}}}) is any local bureaucrat`s, or mandarin`s, office and residence of the Chinese Empire. The term has been widely used in China for centuries, but appeared in English during the Qing Dynasty. Within the yamen, the bureauc...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamen

  5. Yamen
    [town] Yámén ({zh|t={{linktext|崖|門}|s={linktext|崖|门}}}) is a town lying in the south of Xinhui District of Jiangmen, Guangdong, People`s Republic of China. It covers an area of 281 square kilometers and has a population of 40,000. ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamen_(town)

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