Bussière Garden, Beijing, Chinese garden in Beianhe Community, Beijing, China
Bussière Garden is a private garden in Beijing's Haidian District, north of Sujiaguo Town, built by French physician Jean-Augustin Bussière. It has three parts: a three-storey granite watchtower outside the gate, a two-storey Chinese-style northern wing on the mountainside with a pond, fountain and stone bridge, and a five-room southern wing of black brick that served as his daughter's residence.
A French physician founded the garden in the early 1900s and worked as a doctor in Beijing for decades. The site was later protected as cultural heritage and underwent complete restoration in 2014.
The garden is named after a French physician who worked in early 20th-century Beijing. Today it displays traditional Chinese elements alongside Western structures, showing how two cultures merged in this space.
The garden is walkable on various paths and offers several seating areas for rest by the ponds and under the trees. The best time to visit is spring or autumn when the weather is mild and the vegetation looks particularly nice.
The watchtower outside the garden gate was never used for fighting: Bussière turned it into a clinic for local residents. Above its door a 1936 stone plaque reads "To Practice Medicine to Save People", presented by Yao Tongyi and Li Shizeng, and the inscription on its back names the Wenquan area patients who praised him.
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