Title: The Translation-Centered Approach to a Summary of Translation Theories: A Review of Theories of Translation

Abstract: Summary books are now the main resources which translation scholars resort to when learning about translation theories. Such books may be written in many different ways. Theories of Translation, written in a “translation-centered” way, presents existing translation theories from three perspectives: the translated text, the translation process, and The Translator, and exemplifies a new way of translation theory summary writing.

Keywords: summary of translation theories, Theories of Translation, interdisciplinary studies, global vision

Author: Ziman Han, Professor, College of Foreign Languages, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.