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