ABSTRACT
The shopping mall's role in producing these moral conditions, the nature of the person that it idealizes, and the means by which a counter-culture is able to bleed through the level of day-to-day praxis. It is here that the erasure of China's proletariat, explored earlier in the study, takes on its most reified form. Caught in the thrall of consumer fantasy however, it is unlikely that the mall's more welcome inhabitants will pay a great deal of attention to such rough edges. Homi Bhabha describes this perceptual territory as Third Space': In effect, the interaction between the polar extremities opens an interstice within which the lived dimensions of the mall can be explored with a critical edge. It is well known was made clear by the Western tourists who, on subsequent occasions, would intervene with warnings. On a number of levels, the scenario intersects with post-colonial ideas of otherness that are mobilized in the service of individual identity construction.
