Translation Work Claimins Diaspora And Book Review

Su Zheng’s Claiming Diaspora-Music, Transnationalism and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America (2010) belongs to the nine monographs of American Musicspheres Series by the chief editor of Mark Slobin. Zheng’s work focuses on the musical life of Chinese American and offers a distinguished case of the diaspora writings in the current context of cultural globalization, moreover, it provides valuable historical documents and archives for academic study in China as well.The body of book consist of8chapters:Chapter1and2introduce the central concern in the book in way of historical narrative, and carefully discuss the wide-related theories on the issue; Chapter3documents the earliest extant music-related materials on the Chinese experience in America and analyzes the relationships between various types of music making and the diverse immigration experiences of the Chinese; Chapter4presents a comprehensive overview of the broad range of musical genres presently cultivated by Chinese Americans in New York City; Chapter5introduces the spatial journeys of Chinese American music making; Chapter6views the Chinese American diasporic musical cosmos through the lens of ethnic media products, popular music, and transnational ethnic media networks; Chapter7tries to explore the impact of the diasporic experience on the individual’s music making and musical expressions, and to provide a micro-examination of the dialectics between broad social patterns and practices of individual human agencies through personal stories of7immigrant musicians; Chapter8discusses the multiple interconnections, interactions, and intercommunications between individuals, music groups, and cultural institutions across the boundaries of nation-states that define the Chinese American musical world.The book review, named Musical Diasporic Writing in the Context of Post-Colonialism: Review on Claiming Diaspora in the Post-Colonialism Perspectives, analyzes the diasporic research led by Su Zheng with characteristic perspectives respectively in the writings of Said, Spivak, and Homi Bhabha on one hand, and discusses the translation of diasporic works in the context of post-colonialism on the other.