Ministry of Personnel
| 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, also known as the Ministry of Civil Service, 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 (司勋司), 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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