Chinese publishing industry in modern times appears in a large cultural conflict unheard before.

中国近代史上的出版业，是在一场前所未有的文化大冲突中诞生的。

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Never before in modern times have workers had so much autonomy over their work days.

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Such a tale of love and loss has been told many times before, but in modern writing, it is the style and not the substance that is gripping.

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No other great artist before modern times, in which shifting contingency affects every enterprise, seems less certain of whom he is addressing, and why.

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