Ministry of Personnel

Imperial Chinese government ministry
ᡥᠠᡶᠠᠨ ᡳ ᠵᡠᡵᡤᠠᠨMöllendorffhafan 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

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

  • Imperial examination
  • Scholar-bureaucrat or mandarin
  • Examination Yuan

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Hucker (1958), p. 32.

Sources

  • 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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