Modern Translation in China Under Cultural Hegemony

In post-colonialism, there exists a close relation between cultural hegemony and translation. Hegemonic culture takes advantages of translation to export its culture to colonies, and the dominated culture passively resists the cultural hegemony ending up with being subverted, or loss of discourse. Taking China's translation history from the end of 19th to the beginning of 20th as an example, this text attempts to illustrate the decisive influence of cultural hegemony on translation and how translation resists the invasion of cultural hegemony.