Title Remains of the everyday : a century of recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents The republican era (1915-49) -- Mao era: (1949-80) -- The reform era (1980-Present) -- Appendix : timelines of selected events in recycling and sanitation bureaucracies, 1949-2000 Summary "Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing's economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. On the other, informal recycling networks-from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing's neighborhoods today-have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government's failure to control them. The result, Joshua Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2020) Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- China -- Beijing -- 20th century Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- China -- Beijing -- 20th century Recycled products -- China -- Beijing -- 20th century Recycled products -- Government policy -- China -- Beijing -- 20th century Electronic books. e-books. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Recycled products Recycled products -- Government policy Recycling (Waste, etc.) Refuse and refuse disposal Social conditions SUBJECT Beijing (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject China -- Beijing Form Electronic book LC no. 2020021299 ISBN 9780520971394 0520971396

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