For all its slick modernity, there are plenty of 19th-century echoes about contemporary China with the new railroads that are opening up the hinterland and all those Dickensian factories. Amid the mountainous production of steel, a confident new national identity is being forged in a country that wants to stake its claim in the world.
儘管擁有種種光鮮的現代化標誌，但當代中國在許多地方讓人感受到19世紀的氣息：新修的鐵路打開內陸地區，還有所有那些狄更斯時代般的工廠。在鋼產量達到天量之際，一種充滿自信的新國家認同感正在這個欲在世界上佔據一席之地的國家形成。
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