mandarinism
nounEtymology From mandarin + -ism.
1
A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- It seems to me that it is these very governments of centralized mandarinism that play at providence, in which they closely resemble the communists, as indeed all absolutism contains a strong element of communism.1853, Francis Lieber, On Civil Liberty and Self-government: