近代
On the
HSK 4 vocabulary list,
at CEFR level
B2.
jìndài
ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄉㄞˋ
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the not-very-distant past
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modern times, excluding recent decades
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(in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)
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capitalist times (pre-1949)
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