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Then he noted that Lord O'Donnell presented no evidence: it was just the special pleading of a high priest of the mandarinate.

Even today, in its dilapidated state, the United States retains the outward functions of representative democracy, while Europe is sinking into what amounts to an unelected mandarinate government not so different than today’s China.

Anyone who understands the traditional subtlety of the Chinese mandarinate knows what this means.

Sun, although bitterly opposed to the mandarinate of the Empire and the pseudo-Republic, could not rid himself of the age-old Chinese idea of a class organization on a basis of intellect rather than of property.

How is the work of the Mandarinate performed? we hear some say.