Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or authority of a mandarin.
- noun The whole body of mandarins; mandarins collectively.
- noun The jurisdiction or district of a mandarin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The collective body of
officials (mandarins ) or persons of rank in historicalChina . - noun A
political form ofrule bymandarins - noun The status of holding a position as a
mandarin . - noun figuratively A type of
government marked by excessivebureaucracy andByzantine regulations .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even those sympathetic to the mandarinate in Beijing who have competently lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty must shake their heads in wonder.
Nathan Gardels: First, Ai Weiwei. Now, Confucius Nathan Gardels 2011
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The mandarinate and its political masters would no doubt reply that this was inevitable: the Queen's government must be carried on, as far as possible in the usual way.
The Coalition and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor – review 2011
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China, at least, has the political capacity as an authoritarian mandarinate to change course from the top if the Communist Party is confident enough to heed the feedback signals of a burgeoning middle class that is demanding a more open society.
Nathan Gardels: To Balance Global Economy, Recalibrate Democracy Nathan Gardels 2010
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Even those sympathetic to the mandarinate in Beijing who have competently lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty must shake their heads in wonder.
Nathan Gardels: First, Ai Weiwei. Now, Confucius Nathan Gardels 2011
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Even those sympathetic to the mandarinate in Beijing who have competently lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty must shake their heads in wonder.
Nathan Gardels: First, Ai Weiwei. Now, Confucius Nathan Gardels 2011
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The mandarinate is already being tested on many fronts, from the need to raise domestic consumption as American demand for Chinese exports weakens, to endemic environmental crises, to the striking workers at Honda, to the suicides at Foxxconn Technology Group this year.
Nathan Gardels: The Rise of Naoto Kan: Japan's Lesson for China 2010
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Will this modern mandarinate that has competently moved China from a peasant economy to the factory of the world be able to transcend its Maoist roots and respond to the new conditions and constituencies it is creating any more than did Japan Inc. 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry?
Nathan Gardels: The Rise of Naoto Kan: Japan's Lesson for China 2010
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"When working properly, the mandarinate is meritocratic and imbued with a deep sense of responsibility for the whole country," Yeo said hopefully.
Nathan Gardels: The Rise of Naoto Kan: Japan's Lesson for China 2010
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Even so, 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 thirteenth-century China.
Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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That night, the bipartisan mandarinate known formally as the Senior Advisory Group began preparing at the Pentagon for a meeting with the President.
Hullabaloo 2006
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