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 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.
The former yamen in Kowloon Walled City Park, Hong Kong.
Drawing 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
Kowloon Walled City
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Kowloon Walled City was an extremely densely populated and largely ungoverned enclave of China within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong.
An aerial view of Kowloon Walled City in 1989
Lung Tsun Stone Bridge and Lung Tsun Pavilion (Pavilion for Greeting Officials) of Kowloon Walled City in 1898
An aerial view of Kowloon Walled City and the neighbouring Sai Tau Tsuen village in 1972
The south side of Kowloon Walled City in 1975. The elevation of the buildings begins to reach its maximum height.