Research of Translation Subject and Translational Subjectivity

With the “cultural turn” in Translation Studies in the West after the 1970s, proper and increasing attention has been paid to translation subject and translational subjectivity, which have become necessary and important research subjects for translation researchers. Studies on these subjects in China did not start until late 1990s. This paper addresses the present research on these subjects in China, and explores the problems that who is the subject of translation and what are the connotations as well as the characteristics of translational subjectivity, in an attempt to establish translator’s status as the subject of translation and the creator of culture.