Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 *
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Remains of the Everyday significantly contributes to the state of research on Beijing’s modern history, urban governance, environmental policy, formal–informal economic dynamics and resource recovery." * China Quarterly *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One. The Republican Era (1912–1949)
Recycling of a Different Sort
1 Dreams of a Hygienic Infrastructure Deferred
2 From Imperial Capital to Secondhand Emporium
Modernity of a Different Sort
Part Two. The Mao Era (1949–1980)
Recycling According to Plan
3 The Rural Exile of Urban Wastes
4 Standardizing Chaos: Rationalizing the Junk Trades in the 1950s
5 Effortful Equilibriums of the State-Managed Scrap Sector, 1960–1980
Beijing’s Waste-Scape on the Cusp of Market Reform
Part Three. The Reform Era (1980–Present)
Fighting over the Scraps
6 A Tale of Two Cities, 1980–2003
7 Top of the Heap
8 No Longer the World’s Garbage Dump!
Whither Beijing’s Recyclers?
Appendix: Timelines of Selected Events in the Recycling and Sanitation Bureaucracies, 1949–2000
Notes
Index
