Tang poetry translation practice and its corresponding research have experienced a great boom in recent years, which is not only of great reference value for translation practice and translation theory construction for Chinese classical poetry, but also of vital significance for the Chinese culture to go global. However, when did the translation of Tang poetry and related translation studies come into being and develop in the West? Who are the major western scholars? And what are their major contributions? This paper is intended to briefly outline and summarize the above-mentioned topics.