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.

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.

The "silence"of the contemporary translation studies in China results from the ill-considered relationship between the Western translation studies and that in China.

To compare with abroad studies,it is found that domestic studies are still at the initial stage and there remains a long distance between them.