{"product_id":"remains-of-the-everyday-9780520299818","title":"Remains of the Everyday","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemains 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 networksfrom the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing's neighborhoods todayhave 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 it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a highly engaging and important book. It provides a rich introduction to a subject that has received only scant attention in historical scholarship. . . . The book is a great achievement. It is sure to reward readers with its astute analysis of recycling at a time when finding solutions to our global environmental crisis could not be more urgent.\" * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemains of the Everyday \u003c\/i\u003esignificantly contributes to the state of research on Beijing’s modern history, urban governance, environmental policy, formal–informal economic dynamics and resource recovery.\" * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One. The Republican Era (1912–1949)\u003cbr\u003e Recycling of a Different Sort\u003cbr\u003e 1 Dreams of a Hygienic Infrastructure Deferred\u003cbr\u003e 2 From Imperial Capital to Secondhand Emporium\u003cbr\u003e Modernity of a Different Sort \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. The Mao Era (1949–1980)\u003cbr\u003e Recycling According to Plan\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Rural Exile of Urban Wastes\u003cbr\u003e 4 Standardizing Chaos: Rationalizing the Junk Trades in the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e 5 Effortful Equilibriums of the State-Managed Scrap Sector, 1960–1980\u003cbr\u003e Beijing’s Waste-Scape on the Cusp of Market Reform \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. The Reform Era (1980–Present)\u003cbr\u003e Fighting over the Scraps \u003cbr\u003e 6 A Tale of Two Cities, 1980–2003\u003cbr\u003e 7 Top of the Heap\u003cbr\u003e 8 No Longer the World’s Garbage Dump!\u003cbr\u003e Whither Beijing’s Recyclers? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Timelines of Selected Events in the Recycling and Sanitation Bureaucracies, 1949–2000 \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402911949143,"sku":"9780520299818","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299818.jpg?v=1730481822","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remains-of-the-everyday-9780520299818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}