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CHINESE WORD
- Numbered pinyin
- jin4 dai4
- English meanings
- the not-very-distant past, modern times, excluding recent decades, (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919), capitalist times (pre-1949)
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