ABSTRACT
The Greater Bay Area megacity is both a spatial expression of the post-Mao macroeconomic transformation of the People’s Republic of China and a geo-spatial machine for the production of post-socialist subjects necessary to that transformation. Macau, the former Portuguese colony and now Chinese Special Administrative Region, plays a functional role in this process of post-socialist subjectivation. This chapter argues that Macau’s contemporary pseudo-public space, designed within the city’s massive integrated casino resorts, takes the form of an enclosed and interiorized urban environment that serves as an experiential normative model of urbane lifestyle that is crucial to China’s economic transition.
