Remains of the Everyday

A Century of Recycling in Beijing

Remains of the Everyday
Joshua Goldstein
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h229 x 152mm - 338pg
22 Dec 2020 US
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9780520299818
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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.
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780520299818
Published: 22 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 338

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