For many young Chinese, the future doesn’t look so great: The job market is dire, wages are falling and competition seems endless. To cope, some are recreating scenes from the early 2000s, when the ...

Emerging on the internet in the early 2020s, “Dreamcore” is an aesthetic inspired by the surreal, nostalgic-yet-eerie feel of online video games of the early 2000s. A distinctly Chinese subgenre, ...

Young Chinese are turning to a new wave of internet nostalgia called Chinese Dreamcore, an online aesthetic that recreates the sights, sounds and emotions of the country's rapid economic rise in the ...

new video loaded: Chinese Dreamcore Takes Over Gen Z Social Media Feeds Chinese Dreamcore is taking over the social media feeds of young people in China, who face falling wages and a dire job market.

An image from Huang Heshan's Too Rich City series, one of the earliest and most cited works in Chinese dreamcore. Image Courtesy/Huang Heshan The internet has found a new way to grieve, and it’s doing ...

Ever wondered what it’d be like if you woke up in a neat, suburban home, only to find that when you stepped outside the neighbourhood went on forever? That’s the focus of Dreamcore’s new Eternal ...

How does exploring a seemingly endless room of swimming pools sound? How about wandering around fields and houses in an infinite potato-printed suburbia? That’s Dreamcore, a new surrealist game about ...