This study investigates research trends in Lawrence Venuti’s translation theories by conducting a panoramic analysis of scholarly literature from the CNKI and Web of Science Core Collection databases (2000-2024). Employing the CiteSpace visualization tool, it maps the intellectual trajectory of this field within international scholarship. Departing from previous studies often confined to single cultural contexts, this research innovatively constructs a crosscultural comparative framework. On the horizontal dimension, co-occurrence network analysis and cluster mapping are used to dynamically trace the evolution of core international debates, including the foreignization/domestication dichotomy, critique of the translator’s invisibility, and resistant translation strategies. On the vertical dimension, the study deconstructs the unique path of the Chinese academia, driven by cultural self-awareness, in creatively adapting Venuti’s theories to construct a ―Chinese School‖ of translation discourse. Through this dual perspective of diachronic investigation and synchronic comparison, the study not only reveals the paradigm reconstruction of Western postcolonial translation theory within the Chinese context but also, leveraging the burst detection function of knowledge graphs, prospectively identifies emerging research fronts. These include the reconfiguration of translation ethics in the age of artificial intelligence and the cross-disciplinary integration of digital humanities with translation studies. This research paradigm, which integrates big-data bibliometric analysis with critical theoretical inquiry, provides theoretical support for building a translation theory system with cultural agency and opens new methodological pathways for innovating the practice of Chinese literature translation within the global context.