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  1. Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society (London: Sage Publications, 1998), p. 82.

  2. Mike Featherstone, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (London: Sage Publications, 1991), p. 113.

  3. Ibid., p. 84.

  4. Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization (Oxford: Polity Press, 1998), p. 79.

  5. Ibid., p. 83.

  6. Mark C. Taylor and Esa Saarinen, Imagologies: Media Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 11.

  7. Jean Baudrillard, op. cit., p. 79.

  8. Zygmunt Bauman, op. cit., p. 84.

  9. Robert G. Dunn, Identity Crises: A Social Critique of Postmodernity Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), p. 110.

  10. Mike Featherstone, op. cit., p. 113.

  11. Zygmunt Bauman, op. cit., p. 82.

  12. Robert G. Dunn, “Identity, Commodification, and Consumer Culture,” in Joseph E. Davis, ed., Identity and Social Change (New Brunswick, N.J.:Transactions Publishers, 2000), p. 116.

  13. Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (London: Routledge, 1991), p. 133.

  14. Robert G. Dunn, “Identity and Social Change,” in Davis, op. cit., p. 128.

  15. Jean Baudrillard, op. cit., p. 79.

  16. Orrin Edgar Klapp, Collective Search for Identity (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), p. 3.

  17. Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 3–4.

  18. I would like to thank Zhang Lin for help in translation and Thomas Magnell for his help in revising this article.

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Wang Chengbing Consumer Culture and the Crisis of Identity. J Value Inquiry 45, 293–298 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9292-y

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