mandarinate

The mandarinate or official class was recruited from all ranks of the people by competitive examination.

Even to call politics in France a profession puts the case too weakly; it's more like a mandarinate.

Within the Chinese mandarinate there was an ongoing debate over legalising the opium trade itself.

This mandarinate, in the revisionist view, has tilted the Japanese economy toward business interests at the consumer's expense.

The good intentions expressed in Opposition by those who are now ministers are being frustrated by the mandarinate.

But, whether through lack of political will, or through passive resistance by a mandarinate which the report had suggested were "amateurs", Fulton failed.

The Indians replied that their effective civil service, imposed by the British in the mid-19th century, was modeled on the old Chinese mandarinate.

Lee Bok Boon built a little manor in his home village, and bought himself a mandarinate, but he died just two years after his return.

The Ministry, though in general it had a weak set of personnel by Whitehall standards, was imbued with the common cultural attitudes of the mandarinate.

Phan was transferred to the Huế court as a member of the censorate, a watchdog body that monitored the work of the mandarinate.

The Siamese mandarinate under the leadership of Phetracha complained about the occupation force and increasingly opposed Phaulkon.

He joined the Qing army of Zuo Zongtang in exchanged for a Mandarinate.

The French intellectual mandarinate, though always ready to assert the superiority of traditional French culture, did not have a cogent champion in the historical music arena.

In response, the Emperor elevated him to the highest grade of the mandarinate and granted permission for him to preach Christianity anywhere in the empire.

This system continued until Emperor Yang of Sui established a new category of recommended candidates for the mandarinate (进士科) in 605 .

Of course, they make the dual claim in the hope that it will strengthen their mandarinate and help them to endure in a universe which finds them increasingly oppressive.

Concessions Regularly Made Although French is entrenched as the tongue of the Brussels mandarinate, concessions are regularly made to English.

The Ming founder, the Hongwu Emperor, in the first year after the dynasty had been proclaimed (1368), adopted regulations, allowing tortoise-based funerary tablets to the higher ranks of the nobility and the mandarinate.

Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere, scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate, it was dominated by the family's ancestral altar, which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold.

Her husband, Liang Sicheng, was the son of one of China's most famous early political reformers, Liang Qichao, a man of what might be called the progressive mandarinate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

'Do you recognize this book" If there was one book that Wu Zhirong knew by heart, it was this' An Epitome of Ming History, by Zhuang Tinglong, the book responsible for his own meteoric rise within the ranks of the mandarinate.

The car and the dacha which are thrown in to reward his services to the Socialist Fatherland, to Output and the Cause, foretell a form of social organization in which money will indeed have disappeared, giving way to honorific distinctions of rank, a mandarinate of the biceps and of specialized thought.

His laws tended to target wealthy and educated Christians, and his aim was not to destroy Christianity but to drive the religion out of "the governing classes of the empire - much as Buddhism was driven back into the lower classes by a revived Confucian mandarinate in 13th century China."