Citation

Barmé GR. InterAsia Cult. Stud. 2008; 9(4): 612-639.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/14649370802386552

PMID

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Abstract

This paper examines the history of Beijing in relation to gardens — imperial, princely, public and private — and the impetus of the ‘gardener’, in particular in the twentieth-century. Engaging with the theme of ‘violence in the garden’ as articulated by such scholars as Zygmunt Bauman and Martin Jay, I reflect on Beijing as a ‘garden of violence’, both before the rise of the socialist state in 1949, and during the years leading up to the 2008 Olympics.