diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8bfc3fb76..5edc80e38 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Features added
 
 * #8818: autodoc: Super class having ``Any`` arguments causes nit-picky warning
 * #9095: autodoc: TypeError is raised on processing broken metaclass
+* #9110: autodoc: metadata of GenericAlias is not rendered as a reference in
+  py37+
 * #9098: html: copy-range protection for doctests doesn't work in Safari
 * #9103: LaTeX: imgconverter: conversion runs even if not needed
 * #8127: py domain: Ellipsis in info-field-list causes nit-picky warning
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py b/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
index 5a0a8ca10..c92709deb 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
@@ -1767,8 +1767,7 @@ class GenericAliasMixin(DataDocumenterMixinBase):
 
     def update_content(self, more_content: StringList) -> None:
         if inspect.isgenericalias(self.object):
-            alias = stringify_typehint(self.object)
-            more_content.append(_('alias of %s') % alias, '')
+            more_content.append(_('alias of %s') % restify(self.object), '')
             more_content.append('', '')
 
         super().update_content(more_content)
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py b/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
index ccdee6bb2..2becf5de2 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
@@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@ def test_autodoc_GenericAlias(app):
             '',
             '      A list of int',
             '',
-            '      alias of List[int]',
+            '      alias of :class:`~typing.List`\\ [:class:`int`]',
             '',
             '',
             '.. py:data:: T',
@@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ def test_autodoc_GenericAlias(app):
             '',
             '   A list of int',
             '',
-            '   alias of List[int]',
+            '   alias of :class:`~typing.List`\\ [:class:`int`]',
             '',
         ]
 
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autoattribute.py b/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autoattribute.py
index 48e897b2e..5e7220234 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autoattribute.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autoattribute.py
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def test_autoattribute_GenericAlias(app):
             '',
             '   A list of int',
             '',
-            '   alias of List[int]',
+            '   alias of :class:`~typing.List`\\ [:class:`int`]',
             '',
         ]
 
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autodata.py b/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autodata.py
index 907d70aa1..d01e45fc1 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autodata.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_autodoc_autodata.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def test_autodata_GenericAlias(app):
             '',
             '   A list of int',
             '',
-            '   alias of List[int]',
+            '   alias of :class:`~typing.List`\\ [:class:`int`]',
             '',
         ]