page_title: Mandarin (bureaucrat)
hierarchical_section_title: Mandarin (bureaucrat)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Empire of Great Qing of China government official with Mandarin square. Deutsch: Mandarin der Qing-Dynastie, aus China in traditioneller Hoftracht.
context_page_description: A mandarin 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; it sometimes includes and sometimes excludes the eunuchs also involved in the governance of the two realms.
context_section_description: 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; it sometimes includes and sometimes excludes the eunuchs also involved in the governance of the two realms.
caption: A Qing photograph of a government official with Mandarin Square in the front
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