Abstract: In the era of visual culture, urban public screens have emerged as a distinctive urban medialandscape through modes of visual performance and visual presence. Functioning as a "visual nexus" insocialist cities, they reconfigure the visual field of urban public space in contemporary China. These screens notonly constitute a crucial component in the visual -cultural construction of Chinese urban public spaces, but alsoembody the spatial practices and media characteristics of cultural identity under socialism with Chinesecharacteristics. By shaping collective affective identification within Chinese cities, urban public screensoperate as a paradigmatic manifestation of the affective regime intrinsic to socialist culural identity, therebyoffering a distinctive model and experiential reference for the construction of public space in global urbancontexts.

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