Translation and Culture in the View of Contemporary Chinese Scholars

Culture issues in translation have attracted increasing attention among Chinese translators since 1980s. On the basis of modern translatology, Chinese scholars have done a series of fruitful researches on translation from many perspectives including culturalogy, cross-cultural communication and cultural linguistics. Chinese are deeply influenced by Chinese cultural philosophy. They stress on the “degree” of development and evolution, which directly results in traditional Chinese translators’ conservative subject consciousness in their translations. In China, since cultural factors were taken in to consideration in theoretical study of translation, to many translators, information collection and logical positivism are not incompatible.