Abstract：This article presents a critical review of the current research, issues and future directions for translation studies in digital humanities. It is argued that translation studies in digital humanities has achieved substantial progress, but there exist some problems. On the one hand, the research in the field has been limited to the analysis of derivative digital texts based on the use of corpora or text databases, with the result that scanty attention has been paid to the analysis of original digital texts and the use of other kinds of databases. On the other hand, diversified research methods of digital humanities have to be used in addition to text data mining, and the theoretical framework has to be constructed. Therefore, we are required to compile and use a variety of databases for translation studies in digital humanities, and incorporate original digital texts into its research objects. In addition, we are supposed to adopt various research methods of digital humanities for the research in the field, and construct its theoretical framework by drawing upon the theories of digital humanities and translation studies.
Key words: digital humanities; translation studies; state of the art; issues; future directions
