On Ku Hungming’s Translation of Lunyu from Postcolonial Translation Perspective

At the end of 19th century, the publication of the English translation of Lunyu made Ku Hungming the first Chinese who introduced Chinese Classics abroad. Taking the social and political environment into account, Ku’s version embodies a sense of fighting against cultural colonization. His adaptation strategy, rather than adaptation in its full sense, contains hybridity to a certain degree. It is justifiable that hybrid plays an effective role during the process of fighting against cultural colonization and establishing the identity of weak culture under post -colonial context through the analysis of the external facts, which control the production of the translated text, the translation strategies, purposes, and the effects which may bring to the dominant target culture.