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時代曲

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Mandarin · pinyin shí dài qǔ

shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz

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時: shí · time, season; era, age, period
代: dài · replace, replacement (of person or generation); era, generation
曲: qū · crooked, bent; wrong, false
时: shí · time, season; era, age, period

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2–4–3 · shi2 dai4 qu3

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(music) shidaiqu (1920s-era Westernized Chinese pop, a fusion of Chinese folk and American Jazz)

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