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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part One. The Republican Era (1912–1949)Recycling of a Different Sort1 Dreams of a Hygienic Infrastructure Deferred2 From Imperial Capital to Secondhand EmporiumModernity of a Different Sort Part Two. The Mao Era (1949–1980)Recycling According to Plan3 The Rural Exile of Urban Wastes4 Standardizing Chaos: Rationalizing the Junk Trades in the 1950s5 Effortful Equilibriums of the State-Managed Scrap Sector, 1960–1980Beijing’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, 1980–20037 Top of the Heap8 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

"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."

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part One. The Republican Era (1912–1949)Recycling of a Different Sort1 Dreams of a Hygienic Infrastructure Deferred2 From Imperial Capital to Secondhand EmporiumModernity of a Different Sort Part Two. The Mao Era (1949–1980)Recycling According to Plan3 The Rural Exile of Urban Wastes4 Standardizing Chaos: Rationalizing the Junk Trades in the 1950s5 Effortful Equilibriums of the State-Managed Scrap Sector, 1960–1980Beijing’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, 1980–20037 Top of the Heap8 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

"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."

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part One. The Republican Era (1912–1949)Recycling of a Different Sort1 Dreams of a Hygienic Infrastructure Deferred2 From Imperial Capital to Secondhand EmporiumModernity of a Different Sort Part Two. The Mao Era (1949–1980)Recycling According to Plan3 The Rural Exile of Urban Wastes4 Standardizing Chaos: Rationalizing the Junk Trades in the 1950s5 Effortful Equilibriums of the State-Managed Scrap Sector, 1960–1980Beijing’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, 1980–20037 Top of the Heap8 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

"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."