Transplanted gardens: aspects of the design of the Garden of Beneficence, Wellington, New Zealand

摘要

'Chinese Gardens' have proliferated throughout the world over the last thirty years, in keeping with the globalization of Chinese culture incumbent on the growth in size and power of diasporic Chinese communities throughout the world and the increasing economic and political power of the People's Republic of China. Such gardens, if not actually built in China before having been reassembled elsewhere then certainly modelled on (usually) the restored late-imperial private gardens of Suzhou, have now become a key site of 'Chineseness' and an item, therefore, of China's 'soft power'.