近代

jìn dài

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NHSK 4core 10k

1the not-very-distant past

2modern times, excluding recent decades

3capitalist times (pre-1949)

4(in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)