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Traditional Chinese
  
戶部

Hanyu Pinyin
  
Hù Bù

Chinese
  
民部

Simplified Chinese
  
户部

Wade–Giles
  
Hu Pu

Hanyu Pinyin
  
Mín Bù

Hu Bu usually translated as the Ministry of Revenue, was one of the Six Ministries under the Department of State Affairs in imperial China. It existed from the Tang dynasty to the Qing dynasty, although the office also existed during the Sui dynasty as Min Bu.

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Administrative level

  • Tang dynasty & Song dynasty: subordinate to the Department of State Affairs
  • Yuan dynasty: subordinate to the Secretariat
  • Ming dynasty: originally subordinate to the Secretariat, relatively autonomous after 1380, coordinated by the Grand Secretariat after the mid-1400s

    • Functions

    Charles O. Hucker wrote that the Ministry of Revenue was "in general charge of population and land censuses, assessment and collection of taxes, and storage and distribution of government revenues." The ministry was usually divided into specialized bureaus:

  • Census Bureau (戶部司)
  • General Accounts Bureau (度支司)
  • Treasury Bureau (金部司)
  • Granaries Bureau (倉部司)

    • Each bureau was headed by a director (郎中). The ministry was headed by a minister (尚書).

    References

    Hu Bu Wikipedia
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