“你可以回到过去，但那里没有人了”：中国梦核、情感修复与青年参与式怀旧

This article examines an emergent internet aesthetic circulating on Chinese social media platforms known as ‘Chinese dreamcore’. illuminating how nostalgia emerges as a collective feeling among Chinese youth whose lives have been shaped by profound social transformations since the turn of the millennium. Through a semiotic analysis of urban spaces, everyday artefacts, and obsolete media technologies featured in social-media posts and videos, the study reveals how Chinese dreamcore constructs liminal and haunted spaces that evoke collective memories and layered emotional experiences among Chine