A mandarin (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān) was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam.
The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system.
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Ce portrait montre peut-être le mandarin de premier degré Nguyễn Văn Tường (1824-1886), régent impér...
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Painting of the Ten Jinshi of the Jiashen year (1464)
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A Ming Dynasty portrait of the Chinese official Jiang Shunfu (1453–1504), now in the Nanjing Museum....
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The Empire of Great Qing of China government official with Mandarin square.
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