Abstract: This article discusses Lydia Liu's shocking indifference toward translation studies. Liu, a world-renowned humanities scholar from Columbia University in the United States, who also does important research on translation, distances her work from translation studies through the naming strategies reflected in the English and Chinese designations of her approach to translation and through the politics of citation. This article argues that Liu's continued distancing from translation studies is a mirror of the US academic atmosphere that maintains its indifference or even hostility toward translation studies while translation studies has grown into a discipline and been institutionalized in many other quarters of the globe. I call for serious engagement with translation studies from US academia, with a view to helping translation studies win recognition in the United States.
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