by thus,focusing on the dissimilarities of interpreting studies between China and the West,the paper makes an intensified investigation into the factors behind those differences,ending up with some concrete suggestions for the future of interpreting studies in China.

This paper reviews the major approaches and methods of interpreting studies throughout its history, from which we can see that interpreting studies are developing towards interdisciplinarity and the research methodology is evolving from objective speculation based on experience to objective description and empirical analysis based on data.

And more importantly, interpreting studies has benefited from other more established disciplines such as psychology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, text linguistics, neurophysiology and so on, which have been broadening and deepenin.

Analyzing these articles in terms of the central concern addressed, the theme developed and the research method adopted, the co-authors identify the existing problems and the developmental trends, and explore the approaches to improve interpreting studies in China.

The two names can be seen as metaphors of two approaches to translation studies.

Gu Zhengkun’s theoretical achievements in translation studies in perspective of his scholastic career and academic insight with an intent to prove that the achievements Mr.