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.
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