не передает нужного оттенка термина. Если исходить из этимологии термина
( Sun claimed that semicolonial, the
term that many used to describe China’s condition of not being a total colony,
simply meant that China was partially colonized by a large assortment of foreign powers. Borrowing the term ci ( hypo-) from chemistry, Sun described China’s status as that of a ci zhimindi, a “hypo-colony,” a weak nation that had more difficulty developing identity and a sense of unity than “true” colonies such as Korea or Vietnam),
то имеется в виду некоторая недоразвитость, неполноценность колониального состояния. Беспросветная колониальность. А полуколониальность - это ослабленная колониальность. Почти свобода.
(
The ironic implication of Sun’s
statement is that China would have been better off colonized by only one
foreign nation, a conclusion at odds with my appreciation of the complexities of Tianjin’s political and cultural circumstances at the turn of the
century)
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