Medio-translatology: New Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Translation Studies

Abstract

Medio-translatology (译介学) is a young discipline that has added to the scope of comparative literature, translation studies, and even China’s modern and contemporary literary studies. As one of the few original translation theories proposed by Chinese academics, it is shaping and changing the course of translation studies in China and holds great potential for further academic research. In this paper, Professor Xie Tianzhen, founder of Medio-translatology, elaborates on the theoretical basis and essential concepts of this new discipline and provides an in-depth analysis of the nature of translated literature, as well as the relationship between literary translation and translated literature, and between the history of translated literature and that of literary translation.