Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

近代

jìndài

ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄉㄞˋ

  1. 1the not-very-distant past
  2. 2modern times, excluding recent decades
  3. 3(in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)
  4. 4capitalist times (pre-1949)

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