Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling.
On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary Recycling as exemplary of conscientious cit.
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.
Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling