Mandarin (bureaucrat)
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A mandarin was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea, and Vietnam.
Three Ming Dynasty mandarins of varying ranks.
A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu. The cranes on his mandarin square indicate that he was a civil official of the sixth rank.
A Qing photograph of a government official with mandarin square embroidered in front
Nguyễn Văn Tường, 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam.
Yamen
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A yamen 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
The former yamen in Kowloon Walled City Park, Hong Kong.
Floor plan of the yamen at Shaoxing Fu, Zhejiang Province, 1803.
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 prison cell in the former Pingyao yamen