Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization and cuture, the Chinese cultural and intellectual strategy -- Globalization, cultural studies, and translation studies -- Globalizing Chinese literature -- The popularization of English and the "decolonization" of Chinese critical discourse -- Translatology toward a scientific discipline -- Translation studies in the context of Chinese-western comparative culture studies -- Translating theory toward a reconstruction of Chinese critical discourse -- Translation as cultural "decolonization" -- Cultural studies in China -- Whitman and modernity, translation and reception of Whitman in modern Chinese literature -- Reconstructing Ibsen as an artist, translation, and reception of Ibsen in China.