王力宏哈佛演讲稿

第一篇：王力宏哈佛演讲稿

王力宏哈佛演讲稿

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 火力全开 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.

第二篇：王力宏牛津大学演讲稿

篇一：王力宏牛津大学演讲稿中英文全篇 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。。。但凡事物都有两面，所以我认为这背后蕴含着一个亟待讲述的爱情故事。我更倾向于这样的解释是因为我相信，这些关于爱的故事可以拯救我我们，把我们凝聚在一起。我今天演讲的主题就是：通过流行文化修复东方世界与西方世界的关系(众人笑)（我知道这题目很大）我会想办法讲明白的！

联合国秘书长潘基文说过：在音乐的世界里，沟通是无需语言的。这就是音乐的力量，这就是人心的力量。通过发扬艺术，我们才能更好地了解其他民族的文明与文化。在这个动荡不安，人与人之间不慎宽容的年代，我们需要用音乐的力量来更好的了解彼此。

联合国秘书长认为我们需要更多的音乐，这一点我很赞同。

音乐和艺术一直在我的生命中占据着很重要的地位。音乐和艺术的力量能帮助建立人与人之间的关系，用包容，友谊和爱来驱逐因为无知的仇恨而产生的恐惧。

对于在不同的文化背景下在音乐中成长这件事，我自己童年时期的经历是一个最好的例证。我在纽约长大，几乎连一句中文都不会说，以前我连“台湾”和“泰国”都分不清。

（大笑）

知道我上了三年级，有一天在操场上，不可避免的事情终于发生了。因为是中国人的血统，我第一次被人取笑了。当然，平时一起玩的小孩子都会互相戏弄开玩笑，但是这次绝对不同，这点我在彼时彼地就感觉到了。我们暂且管那孩子叫牛仔布莱恩吧！他嘲笑我说：“chinese，japanese，dirty knees，look at these！

大家都开始嘲笑我，我真的很受伤！我依然能够记得我当时的感觉，我觉得特别丢脸和惭愧，但是我当时跟着所有其他人一样在笑。年幼的我并不知道该怎么办，似乎觉得如果我能跟操场上其他美国孩子一样嘲笑“中国人”，我就能置身事外了，我就是他们当中的一员了。这种想法可取吗？当然不可取，而且是大错特错。篇二：王力宏牛津大学演讲稿 王力宏牛津大学演讲稿 thank you.谢谢你们。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.尊敬的各位牛津大学辩论会和牛津大学亚太学生会的同学们，万万想不到会以这样的方式跟你们相聚。没有吉他和二胡，没有夸张的舞台装也没有“火力全开”头。不过上周确实在伦敦的o2体育馆表演过了。不知道大家有没有去看呢。但是，从各方面来说，这些跟我们今天的话题都有密切的关联。那就是-介绍华流音乐。

其实无论我喜不喜欢，我都被认为在代表者华流音乐以及电影。那么今天，我就要来做一次“国情咨文”报告了。但是，这个“国”不是牛津，而是东西方的一个联合体。我想跟你们聊一聊，我们在将华语音乐引入西方社会方面所做的事情，无论是成就，还是不足。我都会坦诚布公。同时，我也想借此机会给你们留下这样一个印记：软实力交流的重要性以及它同我们每个人的相关程度。

soft power, a term i am sure you are all familiar with this point 软实力这个词我相信大家都不陌生。这个概念是由rhodes scholar 和牛津校友joseph nye 提出的。

被定义为一种“吸引”和“说服”的能力。

shashi tharoor 在最近的一次ted演讲中把它定义为“一种文化让其他文化在听了他动人的故事之后受到影响并爱上这种文化”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.但是我想用贴近你们在做大学生们的方式来解释这个词。在我看来，东方跟西方在某种程度上，像是两个大一刚入学的新生舍友。两个几乎陌生的人，突然来到同一个屋檐下，其中一个总是怕另一个会跟他抢洗澡的时间，或者在他想要学习的时候大开趴体。这种关系很可能就变成跟地狱一样了，不是么？“我的室友是极品”的故事大家都讲得出来。这些事我都有耳闻。还有我知道牛津这儿的很多同学都一人一间的对吧，但是，在我刚上威廉姆斯学院的时候，我并不幸运，而且人身安全堪忧。

(you are kidding me.woo-hoo!all right, all right！great.)哇，你还真的是我们学校的！好吧，好棒！

我当时就有一个这样的极品舍友，让我们暂且叫他frank。这个frank 就是那种好像除了抽大麻没有别的爱好的人。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 “火力全开” on that bong every day.他床底下有一个两英尺长的烟斗，持续不断的得点着。给在做讲中文的同学们形容下，就是他每天会对着那个烟斗火力全开

all right 好吧。我可能在这点上算是跟bill clinton 相反吧。bill clinton 是那种“我试过大麻，但我不上瘾。”我不抽大麻，但是我每天都在吸啊吸，而且还是二手的。奇怪的是，只要我在我们的卧室里，我最后都会稀里糊涂地上课迟到。我也不知道怎么回事。我当时就是那副吸了大麻的样子，嘿，已经十点了吗？你们中有多少人有过frank那样的舍友呢？或者，你们也像他一样。所以有一个室友可能是一场灾难的开始。但也可能会酿造一段非凡的友谊。frank第二年就辍学了。于是我换了两个新的舍友，stefan 和 jason。如今，我们三个是铁哥们。

那么，回过头来，正视我们在现实中的处境。看看最近的新闻头条：《外交政策》杂志上的，“中国的受害者情节：为何中国领导人如此猜忌美国”或者法新社的财经杂志《彭博商业周刊》上说，“没错，中国军队正在测探你。”这个特别逗，我来给你们展示一下这封面。是的，特别恐慌有木有！方向那对的吧，嗯，对的。当今对于中国有太多的负面东西。恐华情绪很严重。我觉得这种现象不仅是一种误传同时也是一种误导。这是很可怕的，超级可怕。

那么，中国人又是如何看待西方的呢？我们对西方人的称呼五花八门。大家熟知的有：香港人叫他们“鬼佬”，字面上就是“老妖”。大陆人叫他们老外，字面上就是“蛮夷”。还有台湾人叫他们“红毛”。还真说不完呢。这看上去像是能发展成一段最佳友谊的舍友关系吗？我认为我们得治治病。随着中国实力不断强大，看清楚应该相信什么这一点空前重要。因为，归根结底，这就是高等教育的目的。这就是我们坐在这里的原因：有能力独立思考，自主选择。中国当然不能通过那些新闻头条来定义。也不只是所谓的特殊政策下快速增长的经济。中国不仅仅是一个世界工厂，也不仅仅是未来超级大国。中国的意义价值远大于此。一个拥有十几亿人口，丰富悠久的历史文化与传奇故事的民族。作为中西两种文化的共同产物，我特别想要帮忙在两种文化之间培养起一种互相的理解，建立起一种很美好的情谊。

但凡事都有两面，所以我认为这背后蕴含着一个亟待讲述的爱情故事。我说“爱情故事”不完全在说笑。因为我相信，这些关于爱的故事能够拯救我们，把我们凝聚在一起。我今天讲的主题就是，通过流行文化修复东西方世界的关系。好宏伟的计划有木有啊！我会想办法讲明白的。联合国秘书长潘基文说过，在音乐的世界里，沟通时无需语言的。这就是音乐的力量。这就是人心的力量。通过发扬艺术，我们才能够更好的了解其他民族的文明与文化。在这个动荡不安，人与人之间不甚宽容的年代，我们需要利用音乐的力量来更好的了解彼此。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.联合国秘书长认为我们需要更多的音乐。这一点我很赞同。音乐和艺术一直在我的生命中占据着很重要的地位。音乐和艺术的力量能够帮助建立人与人之间的关系，用包容，友谊和爱来驱逐因为无知的仇恨而产生的恐惧。在不同文化之间推广音乐这一点上，我自己的童年时期的经历是一个最好的例证。

我在纽约的罗切斯特长大，几乎不会说中文。我连“台湾”和“泰国”这两个词都分不清楚。那是真的！我那时是个地地道道的美国人。直到我上了三年级，有一天在操场上，不可避免的事情终于发生了。因为中国人的血统，我第一次被人嘲笑了。当然一起玩的小孩都会互相戏弄开玩笑，但这次绝对不同。这点当时我立马就感觉到了。我们暂且管那个孩子叫bryan m吧。它开始嘲笑我说，中国人，日本人，脏膝盖，快来看。（英文还押韵）你们居然还笑，我太受伤了！好吧，我只是开个玩笑。我依然能够记得我当时的感觉。我感觉特别丢脸，特别尴尬。

但是我当时跟着所有其他人一直在笑。年幼的我并不知道该怎么办。当时感觉好像灵魂出窍一样。好像我能够和操场上其他美国孩子一起嘲笑中国人，我就是他们当中一员了。这种想法可取吗？当然不可取，而且是大错特错。那是我第一次感受到一件残酷而现实的事实。我属于一个少数群体，但那绝不是最后一次。在那个时代的罗切斯特，亚洲人口特别少，几乎之占当地人口的百分之一。

我当时心里很乱，我很想把bryan 打一顿。他让我陷入那种窘境，因此我也要让他难过。但是他身材比我壮，出手也比我快。如果和他打架，我一定会被揍得更惨。这一点我们篇三：时尚雅思听力：王力宏牛津大学魅力演讲

摘要：本次为大家带来的是男神王力宏牛津大学魅力演讲视频，希望大家感受一下男神王力宏的英语演讲魅力。

编辑的话：

烤鸭们快来感受以下你心目中的男神王力宏在牛津大学纯英文的演讲魅力吧。此次王力宏演讲的主题是“认识华流”，与他的身份相当契合，也是他深深关心更是上升为使命的话题。从小时候在纽约长大到台湾建立起职业生涯，他在现场也跟大家分享了不少生活轶事，其中不乏切身感受。谈到中西方融合时，他也深感自己肩负的使命。在演讲最后，王力宏还不忘将优秀的华人音乐带给大家。

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第三篇：王力宏开讲啦演讲稿

王力宏开讲啦演讲稿为大家整理华语流行男歌手王力宏在cctv1《开讲啦》的精彩演讲《梦想造就软实力》讲述他的梦想以及为梦想而奋斗的励志故事，下面是这篇王力宏开讲啦演讲稿

王力宏开讲啦演讲稿

梦想造就软实力

各位同学，请坐。

王老师今天要讲很严肃的话题。要&要打屁股了。没有没有，开玩笑。可以开始了，那就开讲了。非常的谢谢你们今天的到来，然后我今天很兴奋，很兴奋，难得可以在一个比较正式的场合看到这么多年轻的朋友们，然后和你们一起讲一些比较深入的比较有意思的议题。啊，我今天想要跟大家分享的其实是，我去年在一个论坛跟马英九先生，我们在清华大学的时候，讲了一个叫做《梦想造就软实力》 可是因为那个是清华大学，我们今天的主持人是北大的所以我们就不提~额，清华大学(坏笑，全场笑)当时啊，那个是另外一个议题。

可是因为我们今天这个有很多年轻在现场，而且我们的，我们的嘉宾们啊，很多我知道是对我们的流行文化非常有兴趣的，是学唱歌的，学演戏的，很多对流行文化是非常感兴趣的。所以我就觉得可以跟你们一起聊一聊「软实力」是非常有意义的。我觉得，今天我想要传达给大家的就是一种，一种鼓励你们去做梦。去，去追求自己的梦想。当然我觉得，其实讲很容易。谁有梦想?看看，举一下手。你看，每个人都有梦想!其实很容易说，你的梦想是什么?你的梦想是&&和我握手?工程师。太好了!好，工程师，你以后肯定会成功的!加油!加油!

好，大家举手举手举手，导播给我们??。谁有梦想?你!你的梦想是什么呢?

歌迷妹子：力宏，你好你好!我已经喜欢你十五年了。

王力宏：好，谢谢。

歌迷妹子：然后我的梦想是成为一个工程师。因为我的专业是工程热物理专业。然后同时我也非常喜欢你和你的音乐，还有你的电影。谢谢!

王力宏：谢谢，谢谢!很高兴听到你的梦想。

她是做了非常非常好的示范，而且有点出乎我的意料之外。她毫不犹豫的就回答了这个问题，而且她很清楚自己的梦想是什么。其实我发现身边的很多的年轻人现在是，你问他们，他们有梦想。可是他们也回答不出来，或是这个梦想不是很具体化。所以我今天想要跟大家说的是，额&&当你没有梦想怎么办?

其实这是，也是一个蛮，蛮认真的在问你们的一个问题。其实，今天晚上想吃什么?很多人都回答不出来，想了半天都不是很清楚自己要什么。太多的选择。网路提供我们这么多的选择，你喜欢听什么音乐你随时随地都可以，都可以点就有了。那哪怕我们自己的生活，我们要拿我们这一辈子来做些什么，其实，是很难的，而且也是很大很重要的一个决定。

那我记得我9岁的时候，我有个梦想。那个时候做我妈妈开的车，然后听收音机，收音机播了一首歌我觉得很好听。然后我就说，我告诉自己，如果我有一天，有自己的歌在收音机上播。那，我的人生就是，完美的!就是，我就可以，我就可以开心一辈子。所以，那个时候是小孩子的时候，还记得，印象非常深刻。

后来十几岁的时候，我真的出了我的第一张专辑的时候《情敌贝多芬》，我记得，印象很深刻!第一次我坐在计程车上，然后，播歌了。那种兴奋是，我觉得如果当年没有这样子的一个梦想，我就不会那么的刻骨铭心，到现在我还记得那个兴奋。而且我觉得真的是，改变了我的一生。

所以，啊，如果你是没有这样子的一个梦想的话，我还是觉得，不行。你必须要去找，去找到你自己想要什么。可能你小时候知道你自己喜欢什么，babys都，baby都知道自己想要什么，他们会，比如说喜欢什么就毫不犹豫的去摸去抓。然后可能大人会说，‘不行!你不能碰那个!’或者‘你不可以，你不能，你一定要听我的。你，你放下在做的事情，你去帮我!’久了之后你就会产生一种，一种阴影。就是习惯被拒绝，习惯被打击，或者害怕我们要的东西。我们就会开始已经，已经不是很清楚，会不会有点模糊。所以，我为什么要鼓励大家去，去回到，回到你小时候。然后要非常的，好像直觉一样，去，去get in touch，去找回你当初的，你的决定，你的选择，你的梦想。

可以是从很小的地方开始。下次我问你说，额，你想吃什么?你就不要，不知道，随便，都可以。就说，你要吃酸辣汤，你是要吃拉面，或者是&&你就是要表达，从很小很小的地方，其实我觉得很重要。因为无论是在我的音乐也好，或者是即将会拍的电影，即将会写的歌曲。你的选择都会变成你的指纹，在你的作品上的指纹，你永远不可以否定你自己的选择。

其实还有另外的非常重要的原因，为什么我们要做梦。因为梦，是我们「软实力」的开始!哈佛的一位教授叫做joseph nye，他就发明这个「软实力」。他就说：在21世纪，我们的战争不是以武器打，不是以一些传统的军事去打，而是以文化去打的。我们的「软实力」是什么?「软实力」就是，你一个国家如何能够说服另外一个国家，然后就怎么吸引它。而不是用经济去压迫他去收买他，或者军事去威胁他强迫他，而是用你的歌曲，用你的故事，用你谚语让大家爱上你，这就是真正的一个力量。让他们从你的文化中喜欢你，对你有兴趣。学你的语言，学你的文化。我觉得这个是，额，我最近写的一首歌《火力全开》，也是一个主题，「打倒帝国主义」。打倒帝国主义，不愿再做奴隶。

这个dj太优秀了!歌词是这样的。‘打倒帝国主义，不愿再做奴隶，我家大门被入侵。你说lady 卡卡，我说何必怕她，哦哦哦哦哦哦哦哦，别向他们磕头!文化是武器，埋在每根神经，被优人神鼓打醒~~’ok，大家都知道，差不多就是这个意思哦。就是，这完全没有rei过。可以fade out，可以渐弱，渐弱，渐弱&&

好。要讲的就是，这就是现在的帝国主义，然后我们的文化，我们为什么要这么努力去让我们的流行文化，我们的「软实力」强，是因为中国是一个在有史以来，在人类历史上从来没有这样一个国家这样这么快速的爆发的发展过。

我简单给大家一个，一个数据啊，我们经济合作~发展组织就是全世界三十四个最富裕的国家，最发达的国家，去年增长了百分之一。所以可以说是非常非常小，可以说是全球的经济缩小了，在去年。可是中国增长了百分之七，点&&七!对我们的流行文化有没有产生任何影响呢?肯定有很多的影响。

譬如说电影的票房，的一个票房。在，在过去五年来，美国是增长了12%，这五年的过程，中国是增长了154% 这等于是美国的7，啊，12倍多，12倍多啊!所以啊，这个对你们的演员，你们这些年轻的演员来讲是好消息啊，好消息就是以后你们有很多工作，会有很多的戏可以演。会有很多人做，啊合拍片，会有很多的这些中西合资。啊，更多，更多人想要进中国市场，所以我给你们的建议也是可以好好地练一练英文，因为现在美国的演员也在学中文。

那这个也是将来的一个趋势。那在音乐呢，对我们音乐人来讲，其实，稍微，稍微比较难一点啦。额，有现场音乐学院的学生对不对?我想有。啊，然后，音乐很难啦。谁听中文歌曲?除了中国人。其实我告诉你我在这个行业快要二十年了，从来没有看到这么多外国歌手想要来中国做巡回演唱会，或者是想要来找中国的歌手，合唱啊跨界的。但所有的年轻音乐人，在场的年轻的歌手们，也有这个好消息就是，你们以后也会有很多的工作。只是你们要好好地去练一练你们的现场功力。如果你要跳舞，如果你要唱歌，如果你要(弹奏)乐器，这些都是必须好好地练习努力的，写自己的歌。

因为我们讲，全世界的流行文化，j-pop、k-pop、c-pop，大家都听过这些代名词嘛。japanese pop、korean pop、韩流，哈日的这些东西都。c-pop，chinese pop!asian pop，a-pop或者。那我觉得很快就会有这个w-pop!就是world pop，就已经是一个全球的流行文化了。可是不是说一切就会变灰色而已，没有肤色没有种族，不是的。大家反而更需要有我们自己的文化的一些符号在里面，这个，这个世界里头一定会有很多的刻板印象，会有很多的，所谓的clashes(差异，冲突)，可是这些clashes，这些刻板印象的存在就是流行文化最吸引人的地方，最有魅力的地方，就是它能够对社会有贡献的时候。

当一首歌，一部电影，一本书，一个故事，一个电视节目，打破可能一千年的一个，一个刻板印象，我想在流行音乐我会想到猫王啊。他是最伟大的，我们当时是叫他the king当然不是我的年代。当时大家将the king为什么是the king，因为他是第一个把黑人的r&b，他是白人，然后可以唱给白人听。然后就变成r&b是一个全球性的，或者至少是一个西方国家大家都接受。为什么阿姆是，大家认为是一个伟大的饶舌歌手?也是一样，他把黑人的一个音乐带给白人，所以他是第一个打破了这个游戏规则，他就成为了一个，一个对社会有贡献，而且一个伟大的歌手。

《卧虎藏龙》为什么永远会是一个经典的中国电影?是因为它是第一部中文，讲中文的电影，可以红遍全球，而且可以票房大卖。所以谁会做下一个《卧虎藏龙》，或者是谁会做下一个会打破这些规则的电影呢?我不知道，导演会是谁，演员会不会是你。我不知道，可是我可以确定的&&我可以确定这首歌下的时间是非常奇怪。

没有，没有~~我可以确定是它会从一个梦想开始，它会从一个不可能的任务开始，然后它会从一个人的脑子里面，去，就像爱迪生曾经说过，发明灯泡的人就说，‘天才是什么?天才就是百分之一的灵感，百分之九十九的汗水。’额，这个百分之一的灵感还是最重要的。你不要瞎忙，你不要百分之九十九的汗水可是没有那个好的点子呐，那个叫做瞎，瞎忙啊。就是，这个，这个有这样的说法，瞎忙，和人这样子来忙!

我们也不要让，不要做这种事情。可是那个百分之一的点，那个梦想是最重要的。当你有的时候，你要做的第一件事情，你勇敢的做了梦之后，你要做的第一件事情就是你要去相信自己的梦，相信它是真的，它不是梦而已。你会用尽你的所有细胞，你的潜意识，你每日每夜都在想着它的时候，这个就是成功的开始。

你的那些汗水，我跟你讲另外一个故事。我有个好朋友姓房，他后来改姓，姓成。啊，他呢，他有很多的梦想，然后他是那个百分之九十九的汗水到什么地步哦，他有一个镜头，在他的一部电影叫做《龙少爷》，破了金氏记录(吉尼斯纪录)。他拍了2900条才过，他是踢一个毽子。可是在你看电影的时候是一个很快的镜头有没有?你没有想到背后有这么多次的失败。我要讲的是，大家不要怕失败，当你有个梦想的时候，我想在《龙少爷》的时候，当成龙大哥在拍第2899条的时候，想想看他旁边的人是不是都瘫倒在地上，都已经很想翻脸了，应该摄影师，灯光师，道具他们都已经睡着了。就他一个人还是很相信，他可以做到。所以多少人会在那个时候放弃，可是他不会，所以他就是成龙大哥。

所以我要讲的是，当你有一个梦想的时候，当你相信了它的时候，当你要开始进入那一滩百分之九十九的水，当你要跳下去的时候。一会碰到很多的障碍，就像小时候一样，会有人说不可能，这是不可能的。你又不是成龙大哥，你又不是李安，会有很多人阻止你。可是因为我们现在长大了，我们也知道我们自己是谁，我们也相信我们的梦想，我们也相信我们的判断。其实这些都变成，可以变成，也应该要变成鼓励。如果有很多的阻碍，如果有很多的障碍，就些证明说你的梦想是值得的。如果我的梦想是，我要写一首不会红的歌!应该很容易吧!对不对?你也可以，你也可以。这估计就是一个不是很伟大的一个梦想。

可是相对来讲，如果我要说，啊，我给你一次机会，你写一首歌，然后让它红遍全亚洲，全中国。机会非常的难，非常非常的，非常可怕的一个遥远的，一个距离。可是如果让你写一千首歌，你写一万首歌，其中一首歌让它红，你的几率是，是不是多很多?

所以我要告诉大家，我要鼓励大家说，我们常常在瞄准我们的目标的时候，我们瞄准了半天都不敢发射，都不敢扣扳机因为怕失败。我们觉得怎么可能一次的发射就会中，可是通常瞄准，我们，如果是枪的话，三个步骤：ready;arm;fire!就是准备，瞄准，发射。然后大部分的人都会停在那个发射，就都不敢发射，不敢发射，都发抖了。那我要提供一个另外的选择就是，你要准备，先发射，再瞄准。再发射一次，再瞄准一次，再发射!不停地，你可以从你的经验中学到很多，你可以知道下次我应该高一点，下次我要左一点，往左一点。你永远不要想说这是我最后一次机会，这个决定了我们的生或死。所以，今天就是这样，我希望可以给大家很多的正能量，很多的鼓励。勇敢的做梦，相信你的梦想，然后非常的坚持去实现它。

第四篇：王力宏牛津大学励志演讲稿

以下内容是王力宏受邀在牛津大学以认识华流为主题的一篇演讲稿，他在现场也跟大家分享了不少生活轶事，其中不乏切身感受。谈到中西方融合时，他也深感自己肩负的使命。在演讲最后，王力宏还不忘将优秀的华人音乐带给大家。

谢谢波琳娜，谢谢君，谢谢珮姗帮我组织这一切。

谢谢在座的各位，谢谢晚来的同学，也谢谢你们悄悄的进来。

今天开始之前，我想要先为四川地震的灾民们以及波士顿马拉松爆炸事件的受害者们默哀。让我们用一分钟时间，为他们祈福。

谢谢你们。

尊敬的各位牛津大学辩论会和牛津大学亚太学生会的同学们，万万想不到会以这样的方式跟你们相聚。没有吉他和二胡，没有夸张的舞台装也没有火力全开头。不过上周确实在伦敦的O2体育馆表演过了。不知道大家有没有去看呢。但是，从各方面来说，这些跟我们今天的话题都有密切的关联。那就是-介绍华流音乐。

其实无论我喜不喜欢，我都被认为在代表者华流音乐以及电影。那么今天，我就要来做一次国情咨文报告了。但是，这个国不是牛津，而是东西方的一个联合体。我想跟你们聊一聊，我们在将华语音乐引入西方社会方面所做的事情，无论是成就，还是不足。我都会坦诚布公。同时，我也想借此机会给你们留下这样一个印记：软实力交流的重要性以及它同我们每个人的相关程度。

软实力这个词我相信大家都不陌生。这个概念是由Rhodes Scholar 和牛津校友Joseph Nye 提出的。

被定义为一种吸引和说服的能力。

Shashi Tharoor 在最近的一次TED演讲中把它定义为一种文化让其他文化在听了他动人的故事之后受到影响并爱上这种文化的能力。

我很喜欢这个定义。

但是我想用贴近你们在做大学生们的方式来解释这个词。在我看来，东方跟西方在某种程度上，像是两个大一刚入学的新生舍友。

两个几乎陌生的人，突然来到同一个屋檐下，其中一个总是怕另一个会跟他抢洗澡的时间，或者在他想要学习的时候大开趴体。

这种关系很可能就变成跟地狱一样了，不是么?我的室友是极品的故事大家都讲得出来。这些事我都有耳闻。还有我知道牛津这儿的很多同学都一人一间的对吧，但是，在我刚上威廉姆斯学院的时候，我并不幸运，而且人身安全堪忧。

哇，你还真的是我们学校的!好吧，好棒!我当时就有一个这样的极品舍友，让我们暂且叫他frank。这个frank 就是那种好像除了抽大麻没有别的爱好的人。而且他每天都抽。

他床底下有一个两英尺长的烟斗，持续不断的得点着。给在做讲中文的同学们形容下，就是他每天会对着那个烟斗火力全开好吧。

我可能在这点上算是跟Bill Clinton 相反吧。Bill Clinton 是那种我试过大麻，但我不上瘾。我不抽大麻，但是我每天都在吸啊吸，而且还是二手的。奇怪的是，只要我在我们的卧室里，我最后都会稀里糊涂地上课迟到。我也不知道怎么回事。我当时就是那副吸了大麻的样子，嘿，已经十点了吗? 你们中有多少人有过frank那样的舍友呢?或者，你们也像他一样。所以有一个室友可能是一场灾难的开始。但也可能会酿造一段非凡的友谊。Frank第二年就辍学了。于是我换了两个新的舍友，Stefan 和 Jason。如今，我们三个是铁哥们。

回过头来看我的那个类比，我们东方和西方的舍友。是应该成为frank那样的存在，还是想像Stefan 和 Jason那样呢?我认为在当时当下，在2013，我们应该努力成为后者。我们应该，我是说，我想在这一目标上我们是可以达成共识的，对吧? 那么，回过头来，正视我们在现实中的处境。看看最近的新闻头条：《外交政策》杂志上的，中国的受害者情节：为何中国领导人如此猜忌美国或者法新社的财经杂志《彭博商业周刊》上说，没错，中国军队正在测探你。

这个特别逗，我来给你们展示一下这封面。是的，特别恐慌有木有!方向那对的吧，嗯，对的。当今对于中国有太多的负面东西。恐华情绪很严重。我觉得这种现象不仅是一种误传同时也是一种误导。这是很可怕的，超级可怕。

那么，中国人又是如何看待西方的呢?我们对西方人的称呼五花八门。大家熟知的有：香港人叫他们鬼佬，字面上就是老妖。大陆人叫他们老外，字面上就是蛮夷。还有台湾人叫他们红毛。还真说不完呢。这看上去像是能发展成一段最佳友谊的舍友关系吗?我认为我们得治治病。随着中国实力不断强大，看清楚应该相信什么这一点空前重要。因为，归根结底，这就是高等教育的目的。

这就是我们坐在这里的原因：有能力独立思考，自主选择。中国当然不能通过那些新闻头条来定义。也不只是所谓的特殊政策下快速增长的经济。中国不仅仅是一个世界工厂，也不仅仅是未来超级大国。中国的意义价值远大于此。一个拥有十几亿人口，丰富悠久的历史文化与传奇故事的民族。作为中西两种文化的共同产物，我特别想要帮忙在两种文化之间培养起一种互相的理解，建立起一种很美好的情谊。

但凡事都有两面，所以我认为这背后蕴含着一个亟待讲述的爱情故事。我说爱情故事不完全在说笑。因为我相信，这些关于爱的故事能够拯救我们，把我们凝聚在一起。我今天讲的主题就是，通过流行文化修复东西方世界的关系。好宏伟的计划有木有啊!我会想办法讲明白的。

联合国秘书长潘基文说过，在音乐的世界里，沟通时无需语言的。这就是音乐的力量。这就是人心的力量。通过发扬艺术，我们才能够更好的了解其他民族的文明与文化。在这个动荡不安，人与人之间不甚宽容的年代，我们需要利用音乐的力量来更好的了解彼此。

联合国秘书长认为我们需要更多的音乐。这一点我很赞同。音乐和艺术一直在我的生命中占据着很重要的地位。音乐和艺术的力量能够帮助建立人与人之间的关系，用包容，友谊和爱来驱逐因为无知的仇恨而产生的恐惧。在不同文化之间推广音乐这一点上，我自己的童年时期的经历是一个最好的例证。

第五篇：王力宏演讲

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 火力全开 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.