Ministry of Personnel
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| Ministry of Personnel | |||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Chinese | 吏部 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Officials Department | ||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||
| Vietnamese alphabet | Lại Bộ / Bộ Lại | ||||||||
| Hán-Nôm | 吏部 / 部吏 | ||||||||
| Korean name | |||||||||
| Hangul | 이조 | ||||||||
| Hanja | 吏曹 | ||||||||
| Manchu name | |||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡥᠠᡶᠠᠨ ᡳ ᠵᡠᡵᡤᠠᠨ | ||||||||
| Möllendorff | hafan i jurgan | ||||||||
The Ministry of Personnel was one of the Six Ministries under the Department of State Affairs in imperial China, Korea, and Vietnam.
Functions
[edit]Under the Ming, the Ministry of Personnel was in charge of civil appointments, merit ratings, promotions, and demotions of officials, as well as granting of honorific titles.[1] Military appointments, promotions, and demotions fell under the purview of the Ministry of War.[1]
See also
[edit]- Imperial examination
- Scholar-bureaucrat or mandarin
- Examination Yuan
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Hucker (1958), p. 32.
Sources
[edit]- Hucker, Charles O. (1958), "Governmental Organization of The Ming Dynasty", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 21: 1–66, doi:10.2307/2718619, JSTOR 2718619
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