How translatable across cultures are concepts? How do translated concepts interact with the receiving culture's repertoire of concepts and influence its prevailing mode of thinking? How do translated concepts, specifically concepts of categories of knowledge such as 'science', 'philosophy' or 'religion', produce an impact on the receiving culture's already existent body of knowledge? This paper explores the above questions with reference to an anthology the author is compiling. It is an anthology, in English translation, of texts on Chinese thinking about translation. By analyzing the decisions involved in the movement from 'theory' to 'thought' to 'discourse', the author hopes to throw some light on the epistemological impact produced by translated concepts in the receiving culture.