摘要

Going home for Chinese New Year may be an annual tradition, but for many urbanized Chinese, it’s not just a physical journey, but an unsettling return to a countryside showing vast economic and cultural gulfs with the city. Amid their regret over empty village homes and frustration with old-fashioned values, rural-to-urban migrants weigh in on what hometown means to them: family, friends, and neighbors— or a nostalgic way of life that only lives in their memories?