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hostel Pingyao-yamen hostelå¹³é¥æ—è å¹³é¥é’å¹´æ—è ...</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The whole town was very excited to see the emperor, and the city built a guesthouse adjacent to the county governor's office especially for the emperor's visit. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Today the <b>Yamen</b> Property resides next to the most cherished building in the old town, the governor's office, and we treat all of our guests as if they were emperors! </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Here at the <b>Yamen</b> Hostel, we understand that many travelers start their journey at the city of Beijing and follow a route toward the southwest.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.yamenhostel.com</font> (449 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamen"> Yamen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A <b>yamen</b> (衙門, yámén) is any local <a href="/topics/Bureaucrat" title="Bureaucrat" class=fl>bureaucrat's</a>, or <a href="/topics/Mandarin" title="Mandarin" class=fl>mandarin's</a>, office and residence of the Chinese Empire from the <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> Dynasty (and possibly earlier <a href="/topics/Chinese-dynasties" title="Chinese dynasties" class=fl>Chinese dynasties</a>). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However, all <b>yamen</b> typically had similar features: a front gate, a coutyard and a hall (typically served as a court of law); offices, prison cells and store rooms; and residences for the <a href="/topics/Bureaucrat" title="Bureaucrat" class=fl>bureaucrat</a>, his family and his staff. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The institution of the <b>yamen</b> fell victim to the Wuchang Uprising and the Xinhai Revolution, after which <a href="/topics/Warlords" title="Warlords" class=fl>warlords</a> often wound up becoming the ultimate authorities, in spite of <a href="/topics/Sun-Yatsen" title="Sun Yatsen" class=fl>Sun Yatsen's</a> best efforts to establish a Republic of China covering all of China.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamen</font> (252 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200104/ai_n8936898">Canadian Journal of History: Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This study of the sub-bureaucratic system of clerks and runners in the county magistrate's court, or <b>yamen</b>, in central China's Ba county is solidly based on new archival research and introduced within a legal, political, and sociological framework. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> These <b>yamen</b> employees were local residents recruited by the county magistrate to run the day to day administrative and judicial tasks of the <b>yamen</b>, which functioned as the most immediate point of contact between the common population and the state. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In charging fees for individual services rendered and in burdening the <b>yamen</b> with a huge backlog of legal casework and <a href="/topics/Bureaucrat" title="Bureaucrat" class=fl>bureaucratic</a> hassles, they were seen by both the common population and central government as <b>yamen</b> vermin and rapacious men who acted as the magistrate's "talons and teeth" (zhaoya).</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200104/ai_n8936898</font> (917 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><div id="ad2" style="display: none"></div><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.bookrags.com/biography-wen-hsiang">Wen-hsiang Biography / Biography of Wen-hsiang Biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Tsungli <b>Yamen."</b> Because of his honesty (he was proud of being poor), straightforwardness, efficiency, and intelligence, he gained the highest praise of the entire foreign diplomatic community. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Under their leadership the Tsungli <b>Yamen</b> promoted modern schools--the T'ung-wen Kuan, which was China's first foreign-language school, was established in 1862 on Wen-hsiang's recommendation--Western science, industry, and commerce. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As grand councilors, Prince Kung and Wen-hsiang were able to protect the Tsungli <b>Yamen</b> from the attacks of the conservatives until about 1869-1870, when Prince Kung was severely chastised by the empress dowager Tz'u-hsi, and when Li Hung-chang, as the superintendent of trade for northern ports, began to overshadow it.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bookrags.com /biography-wen-hsiang</font> (817 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/Ket/C21/E2104.htm">The Oppert Affair</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Zongli <b>Yamen</b> issued a dramatic memorial to Emperor Mu Zong that reflected China's basic policy toward Choson during this crucial period. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Convinced of the moral rectitude of their position and influenced by a long-standing anti-Manchu sentiment, the majority of Choson officials took a dim view of China's accommodation of the West, a policy they identified with the Manchus rather than the Han Chinese. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Prince Gong and his associates in the Zongli <b>Yamen</b>, the men in charge of <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> foreign policy, were viewed with moral reprobation and suspicion and singled out for criticism and attack.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C21/E2104.htm</font> (4177 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.thingsasian.com/goto_article/article.2133.html">Wall Stories -- ThingsAsian Article</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The building in question is the <b>yamen</b> or the administrative office from which the Assistant Magistrate of <a href="/topics/Kowloon-Walled-City" title="Kowloon Walled City" class=fl>Kowloon</a> commanded the walled fort. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Since the <b>yamen</b> represented the power of the <a href="/topics/Mandarin" title="Mandarin" class=fl>mandarin</a> as bestowed by the Emperor of China, it was revered and even feared by passing-by commoners. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Whatever the reason, the <b>yamen</b>, now fully restored, is one of the few left in South China and it seems to be celebrating this newly-found pride, complete with the two remaining cannons guarding its entrance, potted plants, red lanterns (four on each side) and calligraphy scrolls embellishing its otherwise plain façade.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2133.html</font> (1327 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/reedreviewjiangsui.htm">Talons and Teeth</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Most of these <b>yamen</b> employees were illegal, and their income thus depended on the customary fees collected from local residents. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Instead, the clerks and runners regarded <b>yamen</b> employment as “a legitimate and sustainable occupation,” and used elements of orthodox Confucian rhetoric to validate their work. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> His account shows not only the cooperation the <b>yamen</b> received from the local gentry, but also the desire of Ba county elite to be involved in county government.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>orpheus.ucsd.edu /chinesehistory/pgp/reedreviewjiangsui.htm</font> (622 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/dahponqingessay.htm">Where Do They Not Govern?</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Elite women, litigation masters, and <b>yamen</b> clerks and runners—groups that have suffered from scholarly neglect in previous treatments of <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> history—have been brought to the fore in recent years and shown to have had powerful agency far beyond anyone’s expectations. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Women, low-level <b>yamen</b> staff, and litigators are presumably left out of the equation because they do not, in his view, weigh in on the central question of “gentry power versus <a href="/topics/Bureaucrat" title="Bureaucrat" class=fl>bureaucratic</a> power” (Wakeman 1966, 31) or the tumultuous changes that marked the “final evolution, and extinction, of the Chinese gentry” (Wakeman 1975, 254). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Reed’s research illustrates that <b>yamen</b> clerks and runners were neither as desperately poor nor as opportunistically venal as official <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> stereotypes claimed.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>orpheus.ucsd.edu /chinesehistory/pgp/dahponqingessay.htm</font> (3010 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Session 24</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In the <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> dynasty, the representation of <b>yamen</b> clerks and runners as corrupt and venal scoundrels served as a paradigmatic element of official discourse on the problems of county government. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This paper explores this realm of <b>yamen</b> practice as a form of customary administrative law emerging in response to the inadequacies of the formal administrative system and its regulatory statutes. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After describing informal methods of extra-statutory <b>yamen</b> staffing and administrative financing, I examine the role of magistrates in adjudicating disputes in these areas and the compromises they made between the dictates of statutory law and administrative necessity.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.aasianst.org /absts/1999abst/china/c-24.htm</font> (955 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Footnote</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <a href="/topics/Qing-Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty" class=fl>Qing</a> Imperial Court created the Office for General Management, known as the Zongli <b>Yamen</b> in response to the settlement of the foreign representatives in Beijing. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Initially established in Tianjin as a temporary office to deal with foreign affairs under the guidance of under a Manchu prince, the Zongli <b>Yamen's</b> principal staffed came mainly from leaders of the government peace party. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sixteen secretaries, equally divided between Manchu and Chinese, served beneath the core of ministers and held concurrent offices as grand councilors, grand secretaries and presidents or vice-presidents of various state boards.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C19/FN1908b.htm</font> (228 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.dovesong.com/MP3/MP3_India_yamen.asp">The DoveSong Foundation, Inc. -- Music of India</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Raga <b>Yamen</b> is one of the principal ragas of North Indian classical music. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Legend has it that Raga <b>Yamen</b> was invented by Amir Khursau (1253-1325) who also invented the khayal style of singing. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Raga <b>Yamen</b> Kalyan is like raga <b>Yamen</b>, however a very exact and subtle use of the F Natural note is introduced.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.dovesong.com /MP3/MP3_India_yamen.asp</font> (254 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://academic.reed.edu/formosa/texts/Thomson1875.html">Thomson1875.doc</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Soon an officer appeared, and behind him followed a train of <b>yamen</b> attendants, who wore the usual conical hats with red feathers that suggested the idea of flames burning through the top of an extinguisher. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> When they reached the <b>yamen</b>, a servant came out to say that the Taotai would not receive the military <a href="/topics/Mandarin" title="Mandarin" class=fl>mandarin</a>, and ordered him to prepare for instant death. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Then the '<b>yamen</b> runners' were called in, the expostulating guest was cut down, and this was the new way in which an old state debt was paid.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>academic.reed.edu /formosa/texts/Thomson1875.html</font> (11404 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.britannica.com/search?query=yamen&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT">Search Results for yamen - Encyclopædia Britannica</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Also at this time he served as a grand secretary (a central government post) and superintendent of trade for the north and... </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Tsungli <b>Yamen</b> had two offices attached to it: the Inspectorate General of Customs and the Language School, called T'ung-wen-kuan. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sun Yat-sen, a commoner with no background of Confucian orthodoxy, educated in Western-style schools in Hawaii and Hong Kong, went to Tientsin in 1894 to meet Li Hung-chang and present a reform...</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.britannica.com /search?query=yamen&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT</font> (327 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.artasialink.com/pages/tsung.htm">Art Exhibition Hong Kong, the Tsungli Yamen 1860</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Art Exhibition Hong Kong, the Tsungli <b>Yamen</b> 1860 </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Tsungli <b>Yamen</b>, or Chinese Foreign Office (entrance, above left and interior, above right) was created in 1860. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Such a body was unknown within China, since any dealings with the outside world went under the heading of 'other' - which included some of China's outer regions as well.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.artasialink.com /pages/tsung.htm</font> (308 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Major Crimes Press Release</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Bilal Haidari, age 26, and <b>Yamen</b> Haidari, age 23, both from St. Anthony Village, were both charged with one count of conspiracy to structure currency transactions, one count of currency structuring, and two counts of evasion of reporting requirements in relation to the export of monetary instruments. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was alleged in the indictment that during the conspiracy the Haidari brothers opened eight bank accounts at TCF and began making substantial deposits. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If convicted, Bilal and <b>Yamen</b> Haidari both face a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine on each count for which they were charged.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.usdoj.gov /tax/usaopress/2003/txdv03haidari.htm</font> (312 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.industrees.com">Yamen llc - 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New YAMEN! exchanges begin</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Altamirano, who is a member of the Vida Neuva Mennonite church in Portoviejo, Ecuador, had to wait several months for a visa from the German government. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Altamirano is one of three new participants in the program, which is a worldwide church-to-church exchange program for young adults, ages 18 to 30. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As Altamirano, 19, applied for a visa from Germany, the German government was being criticized for granting visas to foreigners too easily.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.mwc-cmm.org /News/MWC/050512rls1.html</font> (534 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/neilclennan/rpg/cloesti/dragonstone/east/story/yamenkahan.html">Yamen Kahan</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Although his people are on a desperate flight ahead of <b>Yamen</b> Kahan and his Tuigan horde, his heart is strangely light. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>"Yamen's</b> outriders are only a day or two behind. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Wu, summon the spirits and find out exactly where <b>Yamen's</b> outriders are closest.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>homepage.mac.com /neilclennan/rpg/cloesti/dragonstone/east/story/yamenkahan.html</font> (3883 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol6_1/chakra.html">Medical Acupuncture Journal, Vol 6, No 1 Spring/Summer 94 - Chakras</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The most frequently used chakra points are GV 20 (extra Baihui), which is situated in the center of the crown chakra, the 7th chakra, and extra 6 (Sishencong) surrounding the Baihui rectangularly. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Other important chakra points are Extra 1 (Yintang) and GV 15 (<b>Yamen</b>) for the 6th chakra, CV 17 (Shanzhong) and GV 11 (Shendao for the 4th chakra, the heart chakra. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Functions: The functions of the Third Eye are the ability to focus the mind, understanding, the power of discernment, intuition and clairvoyance.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.medicalacupuncture.org /aama_marf/journal/vol6_1/chakra.html</font> (1815 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.upf.edu/materials/huma/central/historia/asiaweb/blocXIX/docums/moderdoc/kung.htm">Memorial del Pr{incep Kung sobre el Tsungli yamen</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> (1) To establish at the capital the Tsung-li ko-kuo shih-wu ya-men ["office in general charge of foreign affairs"; i.e., the "Tsungli <b>Yamen"]</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As soon as the military campaigns are concluded and the affairs of the various countries are simplified, the new office will be abolished and its functions will again revert to the Grand Council for management so as to accord with the old system. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> (6) In each seaport, the internal and external commercial conditions, as well as foreign newspapers, should be reported in communications to the Tsungli <b>Yamen</b> once a month to supply material for official perusal.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.upf.edu /materials/huma/central/historia/asiaweb/blocXIX/docums/moderdoc/kung.htm</font> (622 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://academic.reed.edu/formosa/texts/GermanTexts.html">Fix German Bibliography</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <a href="/topics/Mandarin" title="Mandarin" class=fl>Mandarin</a> announced their arrival, and they were taken care of by a <a href="/topics/Mandarin" title="Mandarin" class=fl>Mandarin</a> named Tschoh, in whose <b>yamen</b> the expedition stayed. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After Groom nearly fainted twice on the way, he was carried the rest of the way to the town of "Chungwa." As Groom was the first westerner who mentions this town, Biernatzki spends some time trying to locate this town with clues from the text and geographical data concerning Formosa. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Kurze begins the second part of the report by describing the village of "Po-chong." Due to its position on the coast and proximity to densely populated areas, flourishing trade was carried out there, mainly with hunting goods.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>academic.reed.edu /formosa/texts/GermanTexts.html</font> (21491 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html">Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Atwater and his family walked through their midst and took refuge in the <b>Yamen</b> of the District Magistrate, which was near by. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We could not leave by the front gate, for the four <b>Yamen</b> men were guarding it; and patrolling the streets in front by day and night were twenty soldiers, ostensibly protecting us, but, as we surmised, stationed there to prevent the escape of foreigners. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> His one thought was that he had been faithless to his trust, and sitting down in the back gate which I had opened so secretly, he cried at the top of his voice, thus bringing to naught our carefully laid plans to escape.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html</font> (5682 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>METEOR GARDEN Version 7 [Completed]</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> There was a point in her life when <b>YaMen</b> had warned her- "Don't go to the other side. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> So <b>YaMen</b> had been rich, she realized, to give away so much- to me? She had to collect the letter, to know what <b>YaMen</b> was thinking, what he had planned months before she knew it. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Worse, she could not even think of he possibility that he had died, or the fact that he had been rich.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.winglin.net /fanfic/xbluex/chapter_23.shtml</font> (625 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03669a.htm">CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Church in China</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Mention should be made of the fact that in 1895, the French Minister Gérard made an agreement with the Tsung-li <b>Yamen</b> that all passages in the official code disadvantageous to the Christian religion should be erased. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Berthemy Convention, finally settled by M. Gérard (spoken of below), and the reorganization of the protectorates and the hierarchy, treated of hereafter, are the chief events of the last few years. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On 20 February, 1865, M. Berthemy, the French Minister at Peking, had a correspondence with the Tsung-il <b>Yamen</b>, with regard to the purchase of lands and houses by French missionaries.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.newadvent.org /cathen/03669a.htm</font> (11454 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Define Yamen : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com)</u> <i>(Site not responding. 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