shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
any high government official or bureaucrat
a high public official of imperial China
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
经典引文
Civil servants dropping into private..jobs with salaries..three times what they earned as Whitehall mandarins.