第一篇：王力宏牛津‘認(rèn)識(shí)華流’英文演講稿

力宏在牛津大學(xué)以“認(rèn)識(shí)華流”主題演講的英文演講稿。

【Leehom Wang Full Address Oxford Union】

Thank you all for being here today, and the late comers as well.Thank you for coming in quietly.I want to start off today just to take a moment of silence for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake and for the victims of the Boston American bomb.So let?s take a minute to pay our respect to them.Thank you.I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without guitar or Erhu, without my crazy stage hair and costumes.But I did perform at the O2 Arena in London last week.I am not sure any of you would make that.But in many ways, that would be similar to what I am talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music to you.I am actually a Chinese ambassador of Chinese pop whether you like it or not.Both music and movies.And today I am here to give you the state of the union address.It?s not the Oxford Union.It?s the union of east and west.I want to frankly, openly and honestly talk about how we?ve done a good job or how we?ve done a bad job of bringing Chinese pop to the west.And I also want to press upon all of you here today the importance of that soft culture, that soft power?s change and how each of us is involved in that change.Soft power, a term I am sure you are all familiar with coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye is to defined as the ability to attract and persuade.Shashi Tharoor called it in a recent TEDTalk, ?the ability for a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with it?.I like that definition.But I want to put it in college terms for all you students and you audience.The way I see it, east and west are kind like freshman roommates.You don?t know a lot about each other but suddenly you are living together in the same room.And each one is scared the others gonna steal his shower time or wants a party then the other one wants to study.It has the potential to be absolute hell, doesn?t it? We all had horror stories of that roommate without heard about those stories.I know for a lot of students here in Oxford have your own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshmen at Williams College, I was not so fortunate.You?re kidding me!Woohoo!All right！Great.Well, I had a roommate, and he was that roommate.Let?s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a two-foot long bung under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers and audience.Frank would “火力全開(kāi)” on that bong every day.So, yes I guess I was kind of opposite of Bill Clinton who tried America but didn?t inhale.I didn?t try a but I did inhale.Every single day, second hand.And strangely enough every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up late for calss.I don?t know what happened.It was like ?Dude, is it already ten o?clock ?? So, how many of you have live lived with that Frank ,or be a Frank Gat? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it has the potential for being the greatest friendship you have ever had.See, Frank, he didn?t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates in the second year, Stephen and Jason.And these days, the three of us are the best of friends.So going back to my analogy, of east and west, and roommates.Do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Stephen and Jason? And I think, in this year of 2013, we should all be striving for the later, shouldn?t we? I mean I am assuming that we all agree that this is the goal that we should all be strving for.Let?s look at where we are in reality.Recent headlines in the media include foreign policy magazine.Chinese victim complex.Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States? Or the AFP, Agence France-Presse, human rights in China worsening US fines? Bloomberg says, in the cover of this magazine, Yes, The Chinese Army is Spying on You.And It?s such a great one I just want to show you the cover of the magazine.yes,be very afraid!So, it actually in extremely high mount of negative fear and anxiety about China ,Sinophobia , that I think is not just missing form, but also misleading and also ultimately dangerous, very dangerous.And what about how westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for westerners.The most common of which are ?gwailo?, in Cantonese, which means the “old devil”, ?laowai?, meaning ?the old outsider? in Mandarin, ?ang moh?, which means the “red hair one” in Taiwanese.The list goes on and on.So are these roommates headed for a best-friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And as China arises to be a global power, I think it?s more important than ever for us to be discerning about what we believe, because after all, I think that?s the purpose of a higher education.And that?s why we are here to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions.China is not just those headlines, the burgeoning economy, the unique politics.It?s not just the world?s fa ctory or the next big superpower, it?s so much more.A billion people, with rich culture, amazing stories and as a product of both of those cultures.I want to help faster understanding between the two and help create that incredible relationship.Because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, willing to be unfold.And I am only having joking when I say love story because I believe it is, the stories that will save us, will bring us together.And my thesis statement for today?s talk is that, the relationship between the east and west needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.That?s a big fat claim.And I am going to try to back it up.The UN Secretary Journal, Bun ki Moon said ?There are no language required in musical world.? That is power of music and that is the power of the heart.Through this promotion of arts, we can better understand that the culture and civilization of other people in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.Now the UN Secretary Journal said we need more music, and I think he is right.Music and arts have always played a key role in my life in building relationships, replacing what once was the ignorance fearing and hatred with acceptance, friendships and even love.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester in New York.I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn?t know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.I was.It?s true.I was a American as an apple pie.Until one day, on the third grade playground, the inevitable finally happened.I got tease for being Chinese.Now we can get tease for making fun on the playground, but this was fundamentally different.And I knew right there.This kid, let?s call him Brian.He started making fun of me, saying “ Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at this.” I can?t believe you are laughing at it.It hurts.OK, I am just kidding.I can still remember how I felt.I felt ashamed.I felt embarrassed.But I laughed along with them, with everyone.I didn?t know what else to do.It was like having a out-of-body experience, as if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the Americans because I was one of them.Right? Wrong.On many levels.And I was facing the first, but definitely not the last time, the harsh reality that I was in minority in Rochester, which in those days, an Asian population of 1%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I want to hurt him for putting me in that situation.But he was faster than me and he was stronger than me.And he would kick my butt and we both knew that.So I just took it in.And I didn?t tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings.I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music.And I wan coincidence that around that time I started getting good at violin, and guitar, and drums.And I soon discovered that by playing music or singing, other kids would, for brief moment, forget about my race and color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am, a human being, who?s emotional, spiritual and curious about the world and has the need for love, just like everyone else.By the six grade.Guess who asked me if I would be the drumer for his band? Brian.And I said yes.That?s when we together formed our elementary rock band called Nirvana.I am not kidding.I was in the rock band called Nirvana before

Kurt Cobain everyone knows.So when Nirvana came, Brain and I were like “Hey, he?s stealing our name.” But, really what attracted me to music at this young age was just this and it still work.I love about music is that it breaks down the wall between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different.And then in high school, I learned that music wasn?t just connecting with other, like Brian and I were connected through music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam Nguyen was my high school janitor, He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scraped the floors and cleaned the bathrooms in our school for twenty years.And he never talked to the kids and the kids never talked to Sam.But one day, before our opening night of our school?s annual musical, he walked up to me, holding a letter.And I was taking a back.I was taking, “Why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I have kept to this day.It was scrawled in a shaky hand written in all capitals.And it read: “In all my years of working as a janitor at Sutherland, you are the first Asian boy to play the lead role.I am going to bring my six-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight.Because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.” And that letter just floored me.I was fifteen years old and I was absolutely stunned.That?s the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, music helped two kids who were initially enemies become friends.But with Sam, music went beyond the one on one.It was a in a higher level.It influenced others I didn?t even know in ways I can never imagine.I can?t tell how grateful I am, just to Sam, the genitor, to this day.He really is one of the people who helped me discover my life?s purpose.And I had no idea that something I did could mean more than I ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke English.Pop culture, music, and other methods of story telling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key and they do connect us like me and Brian and do influence us and inspire us.Then let?s take another look at the stated union.The east-west union with this soft power bias.How is soft power exchanged between these two roommates? Are the songs in English that become hits in China? Sure.How about movies? Well, there are so many, that the China has the a limit of the number Hollywood movies imported in the country so that local movies can even have a chance at success.What about the flips(14:20)at that.The Chinese songs that have hit on the west.yeah!And movies.Well there was Crouching Tiger, that was thirteen years ago.And, well I think there is a bit of an imbalance here.And I think that?s soft power deficit, let?s call it then we look in this direction.That is to say, the west influences the east more than the vise versa.And forgive me for using east and west kind of loosely but I think it?s easier to say to understand English-speaking language or the Ansian speaking language of Chinese, I?m making generalization and I hope you can go with me on this.And is this [15:15]? the problems, this imbalance in pop culture influence.And I think so.I think in any healthy relationship or friendship or marriage, is it important for both sides to make efforts to understand the other? And that exchange needs to have healthy balance.And how do we address this as an ambassador for Chinese pop nusic and movies, I have to ask myself the question, Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music is just lame? Don?t answer that, please.Yeah, I can stop complaining ,write a hit song!Psy did it!But there is truth in that.And the argument being that the content we?ve created just isn?t as internationally competitive, and why should be? Well look at Korean pop, look at K pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking.And they must be outward looking.Chinese pop, on the other hand, can just stay domestic, tour all over Chinese-speaking territories and comfortably sustain.So when you?re that big and powerful, over 160 cities in China with a million or more people.It turned in kind of turn-inward and be complacent.So it certainly can be an argument made for Chinese pop being not marked with international sensibilities in mind.But the other side of the argument, I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true that ears aren?t familiar with, therefore don?t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!The reason I think the arguement hold water though is because that?s exactly what I went through.So I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a westerner.Cause I was 17 years old when I went from being a Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia.And the entire paradise I was in suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up listening to BC Boys, Led Zeppelin,Guns and Roses.And I found myself in Taiwan, listening to the radio and thinking, “where is the B? Where is the screeching guitar solos?” Here I am a American kid in Asia, listening to Chiness music for the first time and thinking “this stuff is lamb.I don?t like it.” I thought it was cheesy, production value is low, the singers couldn?t bell like Axe or Rose, or Maria Carrie.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert and it was Yu Chengqing, performing in the Taibei Music Center.And as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces.And I looked in their eyes and their responses to his music.And it was clear to me, finally, where the problem lay.It wasn?t that the music was lacking.It was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they were singing along and be totally inmmersed in his music and I had an epiphany that I was missing the point.And from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it.I was going to learn how to hear with local ears and I deconstructed and analysed what it was made Chinese audiences connect with certain type of melodies, rhythms and song structures and lyrics.That?s what I?ve been doing for the past almost twenty years.And it took me a long time and I am still learning.But to some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music, but also I started to be able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in, it always looks strange.If you look at things from your perspective, you will always think these people are weirdoes.What?s wrong with them? Why are they listening to this stuff? And I am saying that you can make an effort and get it.It can be done and I am a living proof of that.And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I am trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable as they first listen.What else can we do to reduce imbalance in our popular cultures.Well maybe give a talk to Oxford union.Tour more outside of China.But seriously, actually I think the ties are already starting to change very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatingly.You see more cross-culture now more exchange interest in China definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recently years, Iron Man 3, Transformers 53.Resident Evil,really it?s beginning to be kind of a world pop.And that?s what I am looking forward to, that?s what I am focusing on these days.There was J-pop, there was K-pop, there was C-pop.And there is like this W-pop That?s kind of starting to emerge.This world pop.And I think.Yeah, I love that idea.It?s not world music.There used to be a section HMV called world music.Now it?s like ethnomusicology musical class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for a way too long.It?s a melting pot and it?s mozic(21:00)that even when we look up close we will still see the colors and flavors of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to the world pop? I don?t think there is a world pop station or a magazine unfortunately.there are none.There should be.But there is an Internet and Yutube has proven to be a drving force for world pop and Britain has got Talent, made Susan Boil the hottest act in the world.And she achieved that not through the record labors or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great example.How that just took over and became a huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop also suggests a worldwide pop culture and something that can be shared by all of us and give us a lot of common ground.So today, what?s my called action? I want to help to prove and promote cultures exchange between the east and the west.I think I?ve made that clear.But how? I think you can all be a pop singer.That?s the answer.I am just kidding, unless that?s really what you want to do.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate-relationship between the east and the west.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don?t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that back in Wuhan or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don?t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves ,and think for yourselves and don?t believe the hype.For just a moment ,if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying ,just for the sake of the argument ,with our own tools of critical thinking ,can we build relationships that actually see one another as individual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality ? Of course we can do that.And that?s the goal and dream ,I think of the romantic artists and the musicians ,I think it?s always been there.And that?s what I reach for ,and that makes music so powerful and so true ,that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other ,government ,nationality ,black ,brown , yellow ,white ,whatever colour you are ,and shows each other our hearts ,our fears ,our hopes ,our dreams ,and it turns out in end that the East isn?t that far after all ,and the west ,well the west ,aren?t so white.and through understanding each other?s popular cultures ,we gain insight into each other?s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey ,the west and east ,I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me ,and I ,as an experienced traveler on this road ,on this West and East road ,I?ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today ,of ten songs that I love.There ,that?s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that would be illegal.that as a professional recording artist ,I shouldn?t do that.but I still think that it workshop out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.these ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think this got all *&.27?12??

I just wanna wrap up by saying that being here in the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams and when I look back on those four years ,some of my finest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today ,and made this special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers ,who didn?t know much about the other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times when we did intrude on each other?s privacy, but I always loved listening to Stephan?s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions on what authentic Greek food really was;or Jason?s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari and he did do that.And I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.They were always attentive and respectful when I tell them about what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who made me study.So we shared stories ,but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West, so that?s why I wanna share Chinese music with you today because it?s the best way I know how to create the lasting friendships that transcend all barriers and allow us to know each other truly ,authentically and just as we are.9

第二篇：王力宏英文生日祝語(yǔ)

May this day that's all your own hold happiness for you.And may the years ahead be filled wish all the best things, too.Happy Birthday!愿這完全屬于你的一天帶給你幸福。愿未來(lái)的歲月錦上添花。祝你生日快樂(lè)！May your life be brighter as each birthday comes and goes,with new happiness ungolding like the petal of a rose.Have a wonderful birthday!生日每年來(lái)而復(fù)去，愿你的生活更加順意，新的幸福像玫瑰綻開(kāi)，祝你生日無(wú)比歡快！Wishing you a happy birthday!The would needs every lovely thing of nature and of art.Each butterfly and blossom,each song,each caring heart...It needs each wise and loving thought the best of you and me.To make this earth the beautiful place that it was meant to be.To wish you happiness today and then to tell you,too.You make the world a nicer placejust by being...you!祝你生日快樂(lè)！世界需要大自然和藝術(shù)的每一件珍品。每一只蝴蝶和花朵，每一只歌和每一顆溫存的心。它需要你和我的縷縷才智和愛(ài)慕的思念，讓大地出落的美麗嬌艷。今天祝你幸福，還有一層心意，正因?yàn)榫褪?.....你，世界才顯得更加美麗！It's just “Happy Birthday”but with it there gose a feeling much warmer than anyone knows,a feeling that's heartfelt and especially true,because it's intended especially for you!雖然只是一句“生日快樂(lè)”，它帶給你的濃情重意卻無(wú)人知，情真意切發(fā)自心底，只因?yàn)檫@一切都是特意獻(xiàn)給你！I shouldn't...I wouldn't...I couldn't...forget to wish you happiest birthday yet!我不應(yīng)...我不會(huì)...我不能...--------------------There coulden't be a better time to wish nice things for you.Beginning with a birthday that's happy all day through......And after that the very best of luck and bealth,cheer and everything it takes to make a very happy year.何時(shí)賀君勝此時(shí)？一天歡樂(lè)生日始，好云、健康和欣喜，幸福之年樣樣齊

第三篇：王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講英文全文

王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講英文全文

I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without a guitar or an erhu, without my crazy stage hair and costumes, but I did perform in the O2 Arena in London last week.I’m not sure if any of you [x]…

But in many ways that is similar to what I’m talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music.See, I’m actually an ambassador for Chinese pop, whether I like it or not, for both music and movies, and today I’m here to give you a State of Union address.It’s not the Oxford Union, it’s the union of East and West.I want to frankly and openly and honestly talk about how we’ve done a good job, or how we’ve done a bad job, of bringing Chinese pop to the West.And I also want to impress upon all of you here today the workings of that soft power exchange and how each of us is involved in that exchange.Soft power, a term I’m sure you’re all familiar with, coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye, is defined as the ability to attract and persuade.Shashi Tharoor called it, in a recent TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that definition.But I want to put it in collegiate term for you students in the audience.The way I see it, East and West, are kinda like freshmen roommates.You don’t know a lot about each other aside that you’re living with each other in the same room.And each one is scared the other’s gonna steal his shower time or wants to party when the other wants to study.It has the potential to be absolute hell.We all have horror stories of that roommate, we all heard about those stories.I know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a roommate.And he was that roommate.Let’s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a 2-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全開(kāi) on that bong.So I guess I was kinda the opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn’t inhale: I didn’t try marijuana but I did inhale.Every single day.Second hand.And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for class.I was like, dude is it already 10 o’clock?

So, how many of you have lived with that Frank, or be a Frank? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it also can have the potential of being the greatest friendship you’ve ever had.See, Frank, he didn’t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of friends.So going back to my analogy, East and West, as roommates, do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Steph and Jason, and I think in this day and age, in 2013, we should all be striving for the latter.I’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive for.Now, let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than US.Bloomberg says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you [laughter] And it’s such a great one that I want to show you the cover of the magazine [laughter][Ed:check out the photo on the right!] Yes, be very afraid![laughter]

There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just misinformed and misleading and ultimately dangerous.Very dangerous.And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for Westerners.The most common of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which means “the old devil”, laowai, meaning “the old outsider” in Mandarin, ang moh, which means “the red hairy one” in Taiwanese, and the list goes on and on.So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And as China rise to power, I think it is more important than ever for us to more discerning about what we believe because after all, I think, that’s the purpose of higher education, and that’s why we are all here, to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions.China’s not just those headlines.The burgeoning economy with unique politics.It is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more, a billion people with rich culture, amazing stories, and as a product of both of those cultures, I want to help foster an understanding between the two.And [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to unfold.And I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer together.And my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it up.Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical world.That is the power of music.That is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other people.And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.Music and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even love.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn't know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being Chinese.Now every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and there.So this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!

I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed.But I laughed along with everyone.And I didn't know what else to do.It was like having an out of body experience.As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many levels.And I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? Brian.And I said yes.And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… Nirvana.I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain's Nirvana was ever known… So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just that, and still is what I love about music, is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we [think?].And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam [Nguyen?] was my high school janitor.He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.But one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter, and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I’ve kept it to this day, it was scrawled in shaky hand written in all capitals and it read, in my all years working as a janitor at Sutherland, you were the first Asian boy to play the lead role.I’m going to bring my 6-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.And that letter just floored me.I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.That was the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.It was an even higher level;it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam to this day, he really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose, and I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? Sure.How about movies? Well, there are so many that China has had to limit the number of Hollywood movies imported into the country so that local films could even have a chance at success.What about [x], well, [inaudible exchange with an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.It’s called “soft power deficit”, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.Forgive me for using “East” and “West” kinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say than “English-speaking… language” or “Asian-speaking… language/Chinese”, I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.And I think so.In any healthy relationship, friendship, marriage, isn’t it important for both sides to make an effort to understand the other? And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance? And how do we address this? As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music just [is lame?].Do you want me to answer that? [laughter] Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song!Psy did it!But there’s truth in that.The argument being that, the content that we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive.But why shouldn’t it?

Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.So when you’re that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people, you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent.So this certainly can be made an argument made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities, but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true, is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!

The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through, so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a Westerner.'Cos I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia, and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up listening to Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses, and I found myself in Taiwan listening to the radio and thinking, where’s the beat? Where’s the screeching guitar solos? Here I am as an American kid in Asia listening to Chinese music for the first time and thinking that “this stuff is lame.I don’t like it!” I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Harlem Yu performing at the Taipei Music Centre, and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the looks in their eyes and their response to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay.It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I thought that it was significant, that I was missing the point and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it, I was gonna learn how to hear with both ears, and I deconstructed and analysed what it was that made Chinese audiences connect with certain types of melodies, and rhythms, and song structures, and lyrics, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past almost twenty years, and it took me a long time and I am still learning but at some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music but I started being able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in.It always looks strange if you looked at things from your perspective, you’re always going to think that these people are weirdos, what’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff? And I’m saying that you can make the effort [x], it can be done, and I’m living proof of that.And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I’m trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable on the first listen.So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures? Well, maybe we could talk a lot, tour more outside of China? But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change, very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatedly.You see more cross-cultural exchange now, more interest in China, definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recent years, Iron Man 3, Transformers, [53?][laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop, and that’s what I’m looking forward to and focusing on these days.There’s J-pop, there’s K-pop, there’s C-pop, and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge.It’s world pop, and I love that idea.It’s not World Music.There used to be section in HMV called World Music, and I was like Ethnomusicology class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.It’s a melting pot, and it’s mosaic, that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colours and flavours of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to world pop? I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none--there should be.There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop.Britain’s Got Talent made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world, and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop as it suggests is a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.So today, what’s my call of action? I’ve already proven multicultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how? I think… you can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the [x], unless that’s what you really want to.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that in [x] or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves, and this goes for the East and the West, both.Get to know one another and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.For just a moment, if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying, just for the sake of the argument, with our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships that actually see one another as individual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality? Of course we can do that.And that’s the goal and dream, I think of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been there.And that’s what I reach for, and that makes music so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever colour you are, and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out in end that the East isn’t that far after all, and the west, well the west, ain’t so white.And through understanding each other’s popular cultures, we gain insight into each other’s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey, the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me, and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on this West and East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.There, that’s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal, that as a professional recording artist, I shouldn’t do that.But I still think that it works out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.These ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think these guys are awesome.I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today, and made a special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers, we didn’t know much about each other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy, but I’ve always loved listening to Stephan’s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what Greek food really was.Or Jason’s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari and he did do that, and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.They were always attentive and respectful when I told them what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who always made me study.So we shared stories, but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West.So I really want to share Chinese music with you today because it’s the best way I know how to create a lasting friendship that transcends all barriers and allow us to know each other truly, authentically and just as we are.

第四篇：王力宏哈佛演講稿

王力宏哈佛演講稿

I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without a guitar or an erhu, without my crazy stage hair and costumes, but I did perform in the O2 Arena in London last week.I’m not sure if any of you [x]…

But in many ways that is similar to what I’m talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music.See, I’m actually an ambassador for Chinese pop, whether I like it or not, for both music and movies, and today I’m here to give you a State of Union address.It’s not the Oxford Union, it’s the union of East and West.I want to frankly and openly and honestly talk about how we’ve done a good job, or how we’ve done a bad job, of bringing Chinese pop to the West.And I also want to impress upon all of you here today the workings of that soft power exchange and how each of us is involved in that exchange.Soft power, a term I’m sure you’re all familiar with, coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye, is defined as the ability to attract and persuade.Shashi Tharoor called it, in a recent TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that definition.But I want to put it in collegiate term for you students in the audience.The way I see it, East and West, are kinda like freshmen roommates.You don’t know a lot about each other aside that you’re living with each other in the same room.And each one is scared the other’s gonna steal his shower time or wants to party when the other wants to study.It has the potential to be absolute hell.We all have horror stories of that roommate, we all heard about those stories.I know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a roommate.And he was that roommate.Let’s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a 2-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全開(kāi) on that bong.So I guess I was kinda the opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn’t inhale: I didn’t try marijuana but I did inhale.Every single day.Second hand.And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for class.I was like, dude is it already 10 o’clock?

So, how many of you have lived with that Frank, or be a Frank? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it also can have the potential of being the greatest friendship you’ve ever had.See, Frank, he didn’t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of friends.So going back to my analogy, East and West, as roommates, do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Steph and Jason, and I think in this day and age, in 2013, we should all be striving for the latter.I’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive for.Now, let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than US.Bloomberg says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you [laughter] And it’s such a great one that I want to show you the cover of the magazine [laughter][Ed:check out the photo on the right!] Yes, be very afraid![laughter]

There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just misinformed and misleading and ultimately dangerous.Very dangerous.And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for Westerners.The most common of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which means “the old devil”, laowai, meaning “the old outsider” in Mandarin, ang moh, which means “the red hairy one” in Taiwanese, and the list goes on and on.So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And as China rise to power, I think it is more important than ever for us to more discerning about what we believe because after all, I think, that’s the purpose of higher education, and that’s why we are all here, to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions.China’s not just those headlines.The burgeoning economy with unique politics.It is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more, a billion people with rich culture, amazing stories, and as a product of both of those cultures, I want to help foster an understanding between the two.And [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to unfold.And I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer together.And my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it up.Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical world.That is the power of music.That is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other people.And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.Music and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even love.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn't know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being Chinese.Now every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and there.So this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!

I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed.But I laughed along with everyone.And I didn't know what else to do.It was like having an out of body experience.As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many levels.And I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? Brian.And I said yes.And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… Nirvana.I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain's Nirvana was ever known… So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just that, and still is what I love about music, is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we [think?].And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam [Nguyen?] was my high school janitor.He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.But one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter, and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I’ve kept it to this day, it was scrawled in shaky hand written in all capitals and it read, in my all years working as a janitor at Sutherland, you were the first Asian boy to play the lead role.I’m going to bring my 6-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.And that letter just floored me.I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.That was the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.It was an even higher level;it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam to this day, he really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose, and I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? Sure.How about movies? Well, there are so many that China has had to limit the number of Hollywood movies imported into the country so that local films could even have a chance at success.What about [x], well, [inaudible exchange with an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.It’s called “soft power deficit”, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.Forgive me for using “East” and “West” kinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say than “English-speaking… language” or “Asian-speaking… language/Chinese”, I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.And I think so.In any healthy relationship, friendship, marriage, isn’t it important for both sides to make an effort to understand the other? And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance? And how do we address this? As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music just [is lame?].Do you want me to answer that? [laughter] Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song!Psy did it!But there’s truth in that.The argument being that, the content that we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive.But why shouldn’t it?

Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.So when you’re that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people, you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent.So this certainly can be made an argument made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities, but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true, is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!

The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through, so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a Westerner.'Cos I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia, and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up listening to Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses, and I found myself in Taiwan listening to the radio and thinking, where’s the beat? Where’s the screeching guitar solos? Here I am as an American kid in Asia listening to Chinese music for the first time and thinking that “this stuff is lame.I don’t like it!” I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Harlem Yu performing at the Taipei Music Centre, and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the looks in their eyes and their response to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay.It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I thought that it was significant, that I was missing the point and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it, I was gonna learn how to hear with both ears, and I deconstructed and analysed what it was that made Chinese audiences connect with certain types of melodies, and rhythms, and song structures, and lyrics, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past almost twenty years, and it took me a long time and I am still learning but at some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music but I started being able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in.It always looks strange if you looked at things from your perspective, you’re always going to think that these people are weirdos, what’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff? And I’m saying that you can make the effort [x], it can be done, and I’m living proof of that.And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I’m trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable on the first listen.So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures? Well, maybe we could talk a lot, tour more outside of China? But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change, very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatedly.You see more cross-cultural exchange now, more interest in China, definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recent years, Iron Man 3, Transformers, [53?][laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop, and that’s what I’m looking forward to and focusing on these days.There’s J-pop, there’s K-pop, there’s C-pop, and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge.It’s world pop, and I love that idea.It’s not World Music.There used to be section in HMV called World Music, and I was like Ethnomusicology class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.It’s a melting pot, and it’s mosaic, that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colours and flavours of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to world pop? I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none--there should be.There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop.Britain’s Got Talent made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world, and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop as it suggests is a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.So today, what’s my call of action? I’ve already proven multicultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how? I think… you can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the [x], unless that’s what you really want to.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that in [x] or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves, and this goes for the East and the West, both.Get to know one another and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.For just a moment, if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying, just for the sake of the argument, with our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships that actually see one another as individual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality? Of course we can do that.And that’s the goal and dream, I think of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been there.And that’s what I reach for, and that makes music so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever colour you are, and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out in end that the East isn’t that far after all, and the west, well the west, ain’t so white.And through understanding each other’s popular cultures, we gain insight into each other’s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey, the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me, and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on this West and East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.There, that’s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal, that as a professional recording artist, I shouldn’t do that.But I still think that it works out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.These ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think these guys are awesome.I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today, and made a special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers, we didn’t know much about each other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy, but I’ve always loved listening to Stephan’s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what Greek food really was.Or Jason’s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari and he did do that, and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.They were always attentive and respectful when I told them what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who always made me study.So we shared stories, but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West.So I really want to share Chinese music with you today because it’s the best way I know how to create a lasting friendship that transcends all barriers and allow us to know each other truly, authentically and just as we are.

第五篇：王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講稿

篇一：王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講稿中英文全篇 leehom wang oxford union speech exception。。because knowing both of a coin i really think thatthere’s a love story willing to be told and willing to unfold。i’m willing to tointerpret the love story because i believe it is the story that will save us，will bring us together。and my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between east and west needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture。

（laughing。。）i’m going to try to back it up！

the united nations secretary general ban ki-moon said：“there are no languages required in a music world。that is the power of music and that’s the power of the heart。through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilizations of the other people。in this era ofinstability and intolerance we need to promote better understanding through the power of music?！? the un secretary general thinks we need more music，and i think he’s right。music and arts have always played the key role in my life，in building relationships，replacing what once was ignorance fearing of hatred with acceptance，friendship and even love。so i have strong case for growing in music between cultures because it happened to me earlier in life。i was born and raised up in new york，barely spoke a word of chinese。i didn’t know the difference between taiwan and thailand。

（laughing。。）i was american as。。until one day on a third grade playground，the inevitable finally happened。i got teased for being chinese。every kid just teased for making fun on the playground，but this was fundamentally different and i knew it right then and there。thiskid，let’s call him brayan the cowboy。。he started making fun for me，saying“chinese，japanese,dirty kneess,look at these!”(laughing?)the kids started laughing at me and it hurts!i can still remember how i can felt，i felt shamed，i felt barrased，but i laughted along with them，with everybody。i didn’t know what else to do。i was like having out-body experience，as if i could laugh at that chinese kid on the playground with all the other american kids because i was one of them。right？wrong！on many levels。

and i was facing first but definitely not the last time the harsh reality that i was minority。in rochester，which in those ages asian population was about 1%。and i was confused。i wanted to punch bryan，i wanted to hurt him for hunting me in that situation。but he was masculine，stronger than me and he will kick my butt and he would do that so i just took it in。and i didn’t tell anyone with these feelings and i just held them in and let them repressed.those feelings trough surface in a strangely therapeutically for me through music。it was no coincident that around that time i started paly violion，guitar and drums，i soon discovered that playing music or singing，other kids would，for a brief moment，forget about my race of colour and they be able to see who truly i am，as a human being who’s emotional spiritual curious about the world and has a need for love just like everyone else。and by the sixth grade，guess who asked me if i could join him for his band。

（bryan）bryan！

i said yes and that’s bryan and me together，from the elementary school rock band called“nirvana”（laughing）i’m not kidding，i was a rock band called“nirvana”before kurt cobain’s band。so when nirvana came out，bryan and i werelike:hey，he’s stealing our name!what really attracted to me is that music at this young age and still i love about it is that it breakes down the walls between us and show us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different。then in high school，i learnt that music was not just about connecting with others，like bryan and i were connected through music。it was a powerful tool of influence and inspiraton。

sam nguyen was my high school janitor。he was an immigrant from vietnam who barely spoke a word of english。sam swept the floors and cleaned the bathroom of our school for twenty years。he never talked to the kids and the kids never talked to sam。but one day，before the opening night before our school’s annual，he walked up to me and holding a letter。

i was taken to the back and i was thingking;why sam the janitor would approaching me? he gave me this letter that i was draw off in a shaky hand and written in all capitals，and i read it: in all my years of working as a janitor at sutherland，you are the first asianboy who plays the rock，i will bring my six-year-old daughter to。。。但凡事物都有兩面，所以我認(rèn)為這背后蘊(yùn)含著一個(gè)亟待講述的愛(ài)情故事。我更傾向于這樣的解釋是因?yàn)槲蚁嘈牛@些關(guān)于愛(ài)的故事可以拯救我我們，把我們凝聚在一起。我今天演講的主題就是：通過(guò)流行文化修復(fù)東方世界與西方世界的關(guān)系(眾人笑)（我知道這題目很大）我會(huì)想辦法講明白的！

聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書(shū)長(zhǎng)潘基文說(shuō)過(guò)：在音樂(lè)的世界里，溝通是無(wú)需語(yǔ)言的。這就是音樂(lè)的力量，這就是人心的力量。通過(guò)發(fā)揚(yáng)藝術(shù)，我們才能更好地了解其他民族的文明與文化。在這個(gè)動(dòng)蕩不安，人與人之間不慎寬容的年代，我們需要用音樂(lè)的力量來(lái)更好的了解彼此。

聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書(shū)長(zhǎng)認(rèn)為我們需要更多的音樂(lè)，這一點(diǎn)我很贊同。

音樂(lè)和藝術(shù)一直在我的生命中占據(jù)著很重要的地位。音樂(lè)和藝術(shù)的力量能幫助建立人與人之間的關(guān)系，用包容，友誼和愛(ài)來(lái)驅(qū)逐因?yàn)闊o(wú)知的仇恨而產(chǎn)生的恐懼。

對(duì)于在不同的文化背景下在音樂(lè)中成長(zhǎng)這件事，我自己童年時(shí)期的經(jīng)歷是一個(gè)最好的例證。我在紐約長(zhǎng)大，幾乎連一句中文都不會(huì)說(shuō)，以前我連“臺(tái)灣”和“泰國(guó)”都分不清。

（大笑）

知道我上了三年級(jí)，有一天在操場(chǎng)上，不可避免的事情終于發(fā)生了。因?yàn)槭侵袊?guó)人的血統(tǒng)，我第一次被人取笑了。當(dāng)然，平時(shí)一起玩的小孩子都會(huì)互相戲弄開(kāi)玩笑，但是這次絕對(duì)不同，這點(diǎn)我在彼時(shí)彼地就感覺(jué)到了。我們暫且管那孩子叫牛仔布萊恩吧！他嘲笑我說(shuō)：“chinese，japanese，dirty knees，look at these！

大家都開(kāi)始嘲笑我，我真的很受傷！我依然能夠記得我當(dāng)時(shí)的感覺(jué)，我覺(jué)得特別丟臉和慚愧，但是我當(dāng)時(shí)跟著所有其他人一樣在笑。年幼的我并不知道該怎么辦，似乎覺(jué)得如果我能跟操場(chǎng)上其他美國(guó)孩子一樣嘲笑“中國(guó)人”，我就能置身事外了，我就是他們當(dāng)中的一員了。這種想法可取嗎？當(dāng)然不可取，而且是大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)。篇二：王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講稿 王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講稿 thank you.謝謝你們。i never thought i would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the oxford union, without a guitar or an erhu, without my crazy stage hair, costumes.but i did perform in the o2 arena in london last week.i am not sure if any of you were able to make that.but in many ways, that was similar to what i’m talking about today, that is, introducing chinese pop music here.尊敬的各位牛津大學(xué)辯論會(huì)和牛津大學(xué)亞太學(xué)生會(huì)的同學(xué)們，萬(wàn)萬(wàn)想不到會(huì)以這樣的方式跟你們相聚。沒(méi)有吉他和二胡，沒(méi)有夸張的舞臺(tái)裝也沒(méi)有“火力全開(kāi)”頭。不過(guò)上周確實(shí)在倫敦的o2體育館表演過(guò)了。不知道大家有沒(méi)有去看呢。但是，從各方面來(lái)說(shuō)，這些跟我們今天的話題都有密切的關(guān)聯(lián)。那就是-介紹華流音樂(lè)。

其實(shí)無(wú)論我喜不喜歡，我都被認(rèn)為在代表者華流音樂(lè)以及電影。那么今天，我就要來(lái)做一次“國(guó)情咨文”報(bào)告了。但是，這個(gè)“國(guó)”不是牛津，而是東西方的一個(gè)聯(lián)合體。我想跟你們聊一聊，我們?cè)趯⑷A語(yǔ)音樂(lè)引入西方社會(huì)方面所做的事情，無(wú)論是成就，還是不足。我都會(huì)坦誠(chéng)布公。同時(shí)，我也想借此機(jī)會(huì)給你們留下這樣一個(gè)印記：軟實(shí)力交流的重要性以及它同我們每個(gè)人的相關(guān)程度。

soft power, a term i am sure you are all familiar with this point 軟實(shí)力這個(gè)詞我相信大家都不陌生。這個(gè)概念是由rhodes scholar 和牛津校友joseph nye 提出的。

被定義為一種“吸引”和“說(shuō)服”的能力。

shashi tharoor 在最近的一次ted演講中把它定義為“一種文化讓其他文化在聽(tīng)了他動(dòng)人的故事之后受到影響并愛(ài)上這種文化”的能力。but i want to put it in collegiate term for all you students in the audience: the way i see it, east and west are kinda like freshman roommates.但是我想用貼近你們?cè)谧龃髮W(xué)生們的方式來(lái)解釋這個(gè)詞。在我看來(lái)，東方跟西方在某種程度上，像是兩個(gè)大一剛?cè)雽W(xué)的新生舍友。兩個(gè)幾乎陌生的人，突然來(lái)到同一個(gè)屋檐下，其中一個(gè)總是怕另一個(gè)會(huì)跟他搶洗澡的時(shí)間，或者在他想要學(xué)習(xí)的時(shí)候大開(kāi)趴體。這種關(guān)系很可能就變成跟地獄一樣了，不是么？“我的室友是極品”的故事大家都講得出來(lái)。這些事我都有耳聞。還有我知道牛津這兒的很多同學(xué)都一人一間的對(duì)吧，但是，在我剛上威廉姆斯學(xué)院的時(shí)候，我并不幸運(yùn)，而且人身安全堪憂。

(you are kidding me.woo-hoo!all right, all right！great.)哇，你還真的是我們學(xué)校的！好吧，好棒！

我當(dāng)時(shí)就有一個(gè)這樣的極品舍友，讓我們暫且叫他frank。這個(gè)frank 就是那種好像除了抽大麻沒(méi)有別的愛(ài)好的人。而且他每天都抽。and frank had a two-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.for those chiese speakers in the audience.frank would “火力全開(kāi)” on that bong every day.他床底下有一個(gè)兩英尺長(zhǎng)的煙斗，持續(xù)不斷的得點(diǎn)著。給在做講中文的同學(xué)們形容下，就是他每天會(huì)對(duì)著那個(gè)煙斗火力全開(kāi)

all right 好吧。我可能在這點(diǎn)上算是跟bill clinton 相反吧。bill clinton 是那種“我試過(guò)大麻，但我不上癮?！蔽也怀榇舐?，但是我每天都在吸啊吸，而且還是二手的。奇怪的是，只要我在我們的臥室里，我最后都會(huì)稀里糊涂地上課遲到。我也不知道怎么回事。我當(dāng)時(shí)就是那副吸了大麻的樣子，嘿，已經(jīng)十點(diǎn)了嗎？你們中有多少人有過(guò)frank那樣的舍友呢？或者，你們也像他一樣。所以有一個(gè)室友可能是一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難的開(kāi)始。但也可能會(huì)釀造一段非凡的友誼。frank第二年就輟學(xué)了。于是我換了兩個(gè)新的舍友，stefan 和 jason。如今，我們?nèi)齻€(gè)是鐵哥們。

那么，回過(guò)頭來(lái)，正視我們?cè)诂F(xiàn)實(shí)中的處境?？纯醋罱男侣?lì)^條：《外交政策》雜志上的，“中國(guó)的受害者情節(jié)：為何中國(guó)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人如此猜忌美國(guó)”或者法新社的財(cái)經(jīng)雜志《彭博商業(yè)周刊》上說(shuō)，“沒(méi)錯(cuò)，中國(guó)軍隊(duì)正在測(cè)探你?！边@個(gè)特別逗，我來(lái)給你們展示一下這封面。是的，特別恐慌有木有！方向那對(duì)的吧，嗯，對(duì)的。當(dāng)今對(duì)于中國(guó)有太多的負(fù)面東西?？秩A情緒很嚴(yán)重。我覺(jué)得這種現(xiàn)象不僅是一種誤傳同時(shí)也是一種誤導(dǎo)。這是很可怕的，超級(jí)可怕。

那么，中國(guó)人又是如何看待西方的呢？我們對(duì)西方人的稱呼五花八門。大家熟知的有：香港人叫他們“鬼佬”，字面上就是“老妖”。大陸人叫他們老外，字面上就是“蠻夷”。還有臺(tái)灣人叫他們“紅毛”。還真說(shuō)不完呢。這看上去像是能發(fā)展成一段最佳友誼的舍友關(guān)系嗎？我認(rèn)為我們得治治病。隨著中國(guó)實(shí)力不斷強(qiáng)大，看清楚應(yīng)該相信什么這一點(diǎn)空前重要。因?yàn)椋瑲w根結(jié)底，這就是高等教育的目的。這就是我們坐在這里的原因：有能力獨(dú)立思考，自主選擇。中國(guó)當(dāng)然不能通過(guò)那些新聞?lì)^條來(lái)定義。也不只是所謂的特殊政策下快速增長(zhǎng)的經(jīng)濟(jì)。中國(guó)不僅僅是一個(gè)世界工廠，也不僅僅是未來(lái)超級(jí)大國(guó)。中國(guó)的意義價(jià)值遠(yuǎn)大于此。一個(gè)擁有十幾億人口，豐富悠久的歷史文化與傳奇故事的民族。作為中西兩種文化的共同產(chǎn)物，我特別想要幫忙在兩種文化之間培養(yǎng)起一種互相的理解，建立起一種很美好的情誼。

但凡事都有兩面，所以我認(rèn)為這背后蘊(yùn)含著一個(gè)亟待講述的愛(ài)情故事。我說(shuō)“愛(ài)情故事”不完全在說(shuō)笑。因?yàn)槲蚁嘈?，這些關(guān)于愛(ài)的故事能夠拯救我們，把我們凝聚在一起。我今天講的主題就是，通過(guò)流行文化修復(fù)東西方世界的關(guān)系。好宏偉的計(jì)劃有木有??！我會(huì)想辦法講明白的。聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書(shū)長(zhǎng)潘基文說(shuō)過(guò)，在音樂(lè)的世界里，溝通時(shí)無(wú)需語(yǔ)言的。這就是音樂(lè)的力量。這就是人心的力量。通過(guò)發(fā)揚(yáng)藝術(shù)，我們才能夠更好的了解其他民族的文明與文化。在這個(gè)動(dòng)蕩不安，人與人之間不甚寬容的年代，我們需要利用音樂(lè)的力量來(lái)更好的了解彼此。now the un secretary general thinks we need more music, and i think he is right.music and arts have always played the key role in my life in building relationships, replacing what once was the ignorance, fear and hatred with acceptance, friendships and even love.so i have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in life.聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書(shū)長(zhǎng)認(rèn)為我們需要更多的音樂(lè)。這一點(diǎn)我很贊同。音樂(lè)和藝術(shù)一直在我的生命中占據(jù)著很重要的地位。音樂(lè)和藝術(shù)的力量能夠幫助建立人與人之間的關(guān)系，用包容，友誼和愛(ài)來(lái)驅(qū)逐因?yàn)闊o(wú)知的仇恨而產(chǎn)生的恐懼。在不同文化之間推廣音樂(lè)這一點(diǎn)上，我自己的童年時(shí)期的經(jīng)歷是一個(gè)最好的例證。

我在紐約的羅切斯特長(zhǎng)大，幾乎不會(huì)說(shuō)中文。我連“臺(tái)灣”和“泰國(guó)”這兩個(gè)詞都分不清楚。那是真的！我那時(shí)是個(gè)地地道道的美國(guó)人。直到我上了三年級(jí)，有一天在操場(chǎng)上，不可避免的事情終于發(fā)生了。因?yàn)橹袊?guó)人的血統(tǒng)，我第一次被人嘲笑了。當(dāng)然一起玩的小孩都會(huì)互相戲弄開(kāi)玩笑，但這次絕對(duì)不同。這點(diǎn)當(dāng)時(shí)我立馬就感覺(jué)到了。我們暫且管那個(gè)孩子叫bryan m吧。它開(kāi)始嘲笑我說(shuō)，中國(guó)人，日本人，臟膝蓋，快來(lái)看。（英文還押韻）你們居然還笑，我太受傷了！好吧，我只是開(kāi)個(gè)玩笑。我依然能夠記得我當(dāng)時(shí)的感覺(jué)。我感覺(jué)特別丟臉，特別尷尬。

但是我當(dāng)時(shí)跟著所有其他人一直在笑。年幼的我并不知道該怎么辦。當(dāng)時(shí)感覺(jué)好像靈魂出竅一樣。好像我能夠和操場(chǎng)上其他美國(guó)孩子一起嘲笑中國(guó)人，我就是他們當(dāng)中一員了。這種想法可取嗎？當(dāng)然不可取，而且是大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)。那是我第一次感受到一件殘酷而現(xiàn)實(shí)的事實(shí)。我屬于一個(gè)少數(shù)群體，但那絕不是最后一次。在那個(gè)時(shí)代的羅切斯特，亞洲人口特別少，幾乎之占當(dāng)?shù)厝丝诘陌俜种弧?/p>

我當(dāng)時(shí)心里很亂，我很想把bryan 打一頓。他讓我陷入那種窘境，因此我也要讓他難過(guò)。但是他身材比我壯，出手也比我快。如果和他打架，我一定會(huì)被揍得更慘。這一點(diǎn)我們篇三：時(shí)尚雅思聽(tīng)力：王力宏牛津大學(xué)魅力演講

摘要：本次為大家?guī)?lái)的是男神王力宏牛津大學(xué)魅力演講視頻，希望大家感受一下男神王力宏的英語(yǔ)演講魅力。

編輯的話：

烤鴨們快來(lái)感受以下你心目中的男神王力宏在牛津大學(xué)純英文的演講魅力吧。此次王力宏演講的主題是“認(rèn)識(shí)華流”，與他的身份相當(dāng)契合，也是他深深關(guān)心更是上升為使命的話題。從小時(shí)候在紐約長(zhǎng)大到臺(tái)灣建立起職業(yè)生涯，他在現(xiàn)場(chǎng)也跟大家分享了不少生活軼事，其中不乏切身感受。談到中西方融合時(shí)，他也深感自己肩負(fù)的使命。在演講最后，王力宏還不忘將優(yōu)秀的華人音樂(lè)帶給大家。

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