Remains of the Everyday

Joshua Goldstein is Associate Professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Southern California and the author of Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870–1937.

List 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