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Beijing,a garden of violence |
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| Authors: | Geremie R Barmé |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Keywords: | gardens violence party culture Chinese history Chinese politics cultivation revolution |