Translation Studies under the Context of Post-Colonial Theory

Research on Post-colonial related problems is cropping up in the field of human ities recently, which is a huge and complicated system and covers many categorie s including society, politics, history, culture and so on. Post-colonia l theory with its cultural and political criticism guides the study of translati on to a more general context of social politics, culture and ideology so that tr anslation is granted with more realistic meaning. Compared with enormous researc hes on post-colonial problems, little is known about its influence on translati on theory. By analyzing the influence that post-colonial theory exerts upon tra nslation theory, this article aims to point out that Chinese translation study n ot only should be rooted on tradition but also be incorporated with leading west ern thoughts.