12班蒲公英计划心得(王力)

第一篇：12班蒲公英计划心得(王力)

专家引领春风化雨，助推教师专业成长

——参加新疆书法教师“蒲公英计划”公益培训班学习心得

十天前，我们怀着虔诚之心风尘仆仆得从天山南北奔赴首府乌鲁木齐，参加新疆书法教师“蒲公英”公益培训班的学习，十天后，我们怀揣着作为新时代书法教师的责任和担当，老师教给我们的正确的学书方法，可谓满载而归。现在我把自己的学习体会与各位分享如下。

一、我们参加“蒲公英计划”教学团队的老师们无私奉献，严谨治学的精神，自身丰富的学养，渊博的知识，深入浅出的生动教学，为我们作出了表率。

各位老师们在讲授时理论性和实践性相统一，老师们游刃有余，信手拈来的比喻和小故事恰如其分的穿插，让课堂生动活泼，引人入胜。席间，妙语连珠，深入浅出、通俗易懂的讲授，如醍醐灌顶。我们不仅仅是在学习，在听课，更多的是一种精神上的享受，精神家园的建构。

“蒲公英计划”教学团队的老师们敬业奉献，倾其所有，不辞劳苦，把自己所学悉数传授给广大学员，让人钦佩和动容。尤其是教学团队的李鸿仪老师老骥伏枥，仍然不顾天气的炎热和路途的遥远来给我们授课。他号召我们全身心投入学习，甚至坦陈自己多年前学书时遇到的挫折来鼓励我们。我们全体学员都应该以各位老师为榜样，搞好中小学书法教学，致力于培养一批批有书卷气，传承祖国优秀传统文化的莘莘学子。正所谓：落红不是无情物，化作春泥更护花。

老师们为了让我们更多地汲取书法的知识和营养，为我们注入更多的“源头活水”，夏日炎炎，顾不得喝水和休息片刻，委实让人油然而生一种崇高的敬意，这也是我们作为同行终其一生的追求。

二、老师们言传身教，让我们端正了学习态度。本次学习是公益培训，“蒲公英计划”教学团队和各级领导部门竭诚为各位学员服务，为我们提供了这次含金量非常高的学习机会，尤其是我这个南疆小城的老师能参加这样高级别的培训，真的是对南疆教育的大力扶助，让人备受鼓舞。“蒲公英”团队为我们创设了良好的学习环境和居住环境，营造了浓厚的学习氛围，助推我们的专业成长。

三、通过聆听老师们各具特色的讲座，使我更加明确了此次学习培训的目的和意义。

“蒲公英计划”教学团队的各位老师都多次强调，作为新时期的书法教师应该注意紧扣“三个字”即：看得懂、讲得透、写得精。作为一名书法教师，最重要的是要教学生学书法的方法，熏陶和训练并重，技法和艺术并举，毕竟“传道”是教师的首要任务，只有这样，学生才能在教师的引领下，感受书法经典的大美，达到以美育人的目的。而提高教师自身的书法水平并不是学习培训的最终目的。通过参训人员带动、培养一大批学生，共建伟大书法梦才是这次主办方举办这次培训的初衷。

四、改变了先前狭隘的理念和粗浅的认识，学到了书法的专业知识，让我们如沐春风，如饮甘霖，意犹未尽。

各位老师虽然讲授内容不同，但方式方法各具特色，在讲授时都很注重理论和实践相结合，讲解与练习并举，形式活泼生动，内容丰富，含金量极高。

各位老师都以精辟的讲解和极高的专业素养及书法水平让我们赞不绝口，钦佩不已，叹为观止。如汪永江老师着重强调书法是体现人的真实内心的艺术，作为书法教师要提高自身的书法水平必须要认真临习经典古帖，学习经典，与古人高尚的灵魂对话。周振老师具体从技法训练上对前几位老师所讲授的内容进行了拓展和延伸，讲到临帖时可以采用叠加或去除的方法来分析原帖，可以从《颜勤礼碑》、《大字阴符经》和《礼器碑》之间的联系来认识这三种帖。周老师还通过我们的书写练习提出了我们现在存在的主要问题，还很详细地帮助我们分析例字，引导我们自主观察、分析、总结。张高鹏老师积极开展了学员的互动交流活动。可以说我们尽享了一场书法的盛宴。

老师们为我们讲授了书法领域最前沿的知识，给我们打开了一扇窗，让我们看到书法宽广的领域里的大美，改变了先前错误的认识和理念，纠正了不正确的学书方法，引领我们步入书法的殿堂。

总之，这次培训学习，时间虽然短暂，但我们获益匪浅，既让我审视了自己的不足，也让我找到了学习的方向，让我们感受到我们书法教师任重道远.这次短短十天的学习是我书法教学生涯中难忘的时光，也是我人生中弥足珍贵的美好记忆。

（文/王力，系12班学员）

第二篇：蒲公英班升旗仪式主持词

蒲公英班升旗仪式主持词

1、主持人（男）：尊敬的老师们！亲爱的同学们！本周的升旗仪式由我们蒲公英班承办。

主持人（女）：首先举行升旗仪式。请全体同学面向国旗，唱过歌，向国旗行少先队队礼，儿童团团礼，注目礼。

2、（奏国歌，全体唱国歌，行少先队队礼）礼毕。

3、下面，请听旗下讲话，演讲者：张博远。

老师们、同学们：

大家早上好，今天国旗下讲话的题目是《今天，你读书了吗？》

同学们，你喜欢读书吗？开学到现在，你读了几本课外书呢？

人要维持自己的生命，必须按时补充生命所需的各种营养物质；人要保持精神世界的富足，也需要时时处处为精神补充各种“营养”。“精神营养”来自哪儿？其实，“精神营养”来源于浩如烟海的书世界。

同学们，我们正处在读书、求知的黄金阶段。英国文学家培根曾说过：读书足以怡情，足以博采。同学们，今天，你读书了吗？

读书，需要时间。时间在哪里？它就在我们每一个人的双手里。你一松手，它就从指间溜走了。

因此，读书需要只争朝夕。一早到校，可以读书；睡觉之前，可以读书。

只争朝夕，就是在你茫然的时候，可以选择读书；只争朝夕，就是在你沮丧的时候，可以选择读书；只争朝夕，就是在你懒散的时候，可以选择读书；只争朝夕，在你还拥有梦想的时候，赶紧读书……

选择读书，就选择了勤勉和奋斗，也就选择了希望与收获；

选择读书，就选择了纪律与约束，也就选择了理智与自由；

太阳每天都是新的，生活永远充满希望，现在就开始吧，把握每个瞬间，不要再犹豫！

4、主持人（女）：同学们，自信是个诱人的字眼。

主持人（男）：自信是灯塔，指引人生前进的方向，照亮人生前进的路程。

主持人（女）：一个没有自信的人，就像鸟儿没有翅膀。

主持人（男）：没有自信，就没有坚定的方向，没有坚定的方向，就没有生活；

主持人（女）：那就让我们向着明亮那方，勇敢前行吧。

向着明亮那方

向着明亮那方，哪怕一片叶子

也要向着日光洒下的方向。

灌木丛中的小草啊。

向着明亮那方

向着明亮那方，哪怕烧焦了的翅膀

也要飞向灯火闪烁的方向。

夜里的飞虫啊。

向着明亮那方

向着明亮那方，哪怕只是分寸的宽敞

也要向着阳光照射的方向。

住在乡村的孩子们啊。

住在城市的孩子们啊。

住在地球每一个角落的孩子们啊。

主持人（女）：洛克菲勒曾经说过：“自信能给你勇气，使你敢于向任何困难挑战；自信也能使你急中生智，化险为夷；自信更能使你赢得别人的信任，从而帮助你成功。”

主持人（男）：没错，自信哪里来？自信来自于你满满的知识，来源于书本，书，就是我们的朋友。

（独诵：卢思琪）

《没有一艘船能像一本书》

没有一艘船能像一本书

也没有一匹骏马能像

一页跳跃着的诗行那样——

把人带往远方。

这条路最穷的人也能走

不必为通行税伤神

这是何等节俭的车——

承载着人的灵魂。

主持人：雨果也说过“我们应该相信，自己是生活的战胜者。”那就让我们热爱书吧！

《热爱书吧》

可以没有新衣，可以没有玩具，不可以没有图书，因为书里

有比新衣玩具更美好的东西。

可以不和爸爸远足，可以不和妈妈逛街，不可以不和爸爸妈妈一起读书，因为阅读

会给全家带来无穷的乐趣。

热爱书吧！

它是成长的阶梯，天天阅读，如同天天登山；

天天阅读，如同天天储蓄。

一旦阅读成为习惯，你的富有，百万富翁也无法相比！

主持人：在这里，蒲公英班所有同学希望大家都能够拥抱着梦想，抖擞精神，向着未来出发！

小小的蒲公英，不分南北和东西，轻风吹起就抖擞精神出发，飘向那未知的前程。

小小的蒲公英，不分南北和东西，轻风吹起就整装等待出发，迎向那理想的远方。

随风飘飞无所谓去，迎风起舞无所顾虑，撒下希望的种子遍布大地，只想让希望发芽挺立。

随风飞去俯瞰大地，抱着理想投向大地，只想留下一份温情给大地，期待新的一片天地。

（全班齐唱班歌《小小的蒲公英》）

主持人（女）：升旗仪式到此结束，请各班按顺序带回。

第三篇：田黄镇中心小学王力培训心得

南京师范大学邹城市小学班主任及骨干教师培训心得

邹城市田黄镇中心小学

王力

我有幸成为本次暑假县骨干教师培训班的一员，感谢各级领导给我提供了这次再学习、再提高的机会。我们相聚在美丽的南京师范大学的校园里，满怀着期望与欣喜来参加2015年邹城市中小学班主任及骨干教师培训班的学习。五天来，虽然每天我都早出晚归，冒着酷暑在路上行极其辛苦，但一想到五天来聆听各位专家、教授的报告，回想五天来我的巨大收获，我的那一点辛苦与疲惫又算得了什么呢？五天来，分别听取了苏华、陈宇、陈波、刘建、刘永和、谭顶良等专家学者的不同风格的精彩报告，收获很大。可以说，每一天都听到不同类型的讲座，每一天都能感受到思想火花的冲击。作为一名教育者，我受益匪浅、感想颇深。他们的讲座为我今后的工作起到了很好的指导作用。它将给我在今后的教育教学工作有很大的帮助。下面是我结合自身的工作来谈一下培训后的几点心得体会：

一、通过培训，让我深刻地认识到作为一名教师，要坚持不断地学习，积极进行知识的更新，才能适应现在教育的需要。随着我国经济的高速发展，教育现代化进程的不断推进，当前以多媒体与网络技术为核心的现代教育技术的迅速兴起，正猛烈地冲击着各学科教学。在网络理论下知识突破了原有书本的限制，使教学观念，教学主体，教学方法，教学过程和教学形式都发生根本改变。传统的“以教师为中心，靠一支粉笔一张嘴”的教学模式，也将被基于新课程教学提出来的“教育要为学生的终身发展奠定基础，让学生学会做人，学会求知，学会实践，学会创新”的理念所取代。教师应与时俱进，适应时代的发展，做好自己的角色定位，充分利用网络环境，激发学生的求知欲，提高学生的实践能力，培养学生的创新精神，促进教与学的改革深化。

二、调整我们自己的心态：

这几年的教学生涯，让我已经慢慢倦怠，我已不知道从什么时候开始，自己变的除了爱抱怨，还是抱怨。抄不完的笔记，频繁的检查，刻薄的制度，一项又一项的任务以及家长的难缠，学生的愚笨，领导的不理解，等等。都是那么沉重，沉重的令人窒息。我早已像一台机器，不再有灵感。把教师当成了一种谋生的职业。对工作有的是厌倦之意，不平之心，黯淡之境。可通过这几天的培训，让我能以更宽阔的视野去看待我们的教育工作，让我学到了更多提高自身素质和教育教学水平的方法和捷径。“爱”是教育永恒的主题，我们知道了怎样更好地去爱我们的学生，怎样让我们的学生在更好的环境下健康的成长。孩子有着自己的人格和尊严。老师要尊重孩子，平等地对待孩子，要尊重孩子探究和认识周围世界的特点，要原谅孩子的错误，不要用相同的尺度去衡量所有的孩子，应给予他们更多的独立和自由，关爱和接纳每一个孩子，使孩子不断感受到和体验到老师们对自己的关注、对自己的爱和支持。教师要不断创设情境，巧妙地提出问题，引发学生心理上的认知冲突，使儿童自觉地想了解个究竟，同时，教师要给他们想、做、说的机会，让学生自由讨论、质疑、交流、评估。这样，儿童自然就会兴奋、参与的积极性就会提高起来，参与度也就会大大地提高，每个学生才能得到全方面的发展。今后我会将在这里学到的新知识尽快地内化为自己的东西，运用于教育教学过程中去，结合我校的实际情况，反思教学实践，一切从实际出发，切实担负起教师应尽的责任和义务，在工作中起到骨干教师的带头作用。及时地为学校的建设和发展出谋划策，努力学习同行们的学习态度，求知精神，协作能力，加强平时的学习、充电。他山之石，可以攻玉，今后我将让培训的硕果在教育事业的发展中大放光彩。这次培训内容丰富，水平高，充溢着对新课程理念的深刻阐释，充满了教育智慧，使我们开阔了眼界。2015、08、07

第四篇：蒲公英捐书捐物计划

蒲公英捐书捐物计划

蒲公英的种子们好：

如何实施计划：任何愿意参与的店铺都可以作为我们的捐书捐物点。例如；送水站酒店书店美容美发店公司工作坊等等。只要拥有一颗爱心都可以加入。而对于店铺来说我们在做宣传捐书捐物点的同时也在为他们做了广告。同时一些爱心市民在送书的同时也熟悉了店铺成为他们潜在的客户。

第一步，如何建立捐书捐物点：

我们可以在网络上查找店铺电话联系说明。也可以利用我们自己的人际关系，或者工作下班顺路去一些路过的店铺谈一谈。

第二步；宣传

通过网络或者制作一些宣传牌进行宣传。宣传牌可以号召所在城市的爱心种子挂在社区或者办公楼也可以去联系一些连锁店或者人流多的地方挂在醒目位置。

第三步，书籍搜集打包

每个区号召一个种子负责书籍的搜集汇总工作，将这些书籍集中在一处地方大的地方。然后等待组织通知物流到某贫困学校。

捐书点编号：

捐书点详细地址：

联系人电话：

联系人姓名：

成立日期：

蒲公英捐书点自愿做到以下内容：

1、每一个捐书点都是一朵蒲公英，是爱的传递者，从自身做起，传递爱的信息给他人；

2、愿意尽力尽心尽性为买不起书的小朋友收集健康有益身心的图书；

3、愿意做蒲公英的一颗种子将爱传播到世界的角落；

4、愿意长久参与蒲公英捐书计划，为孩子收集图书、建立图书室；

5、愿意将爱心放在第一位，绝不私自留下捐助物品；

6、愿意相互帮助，共同推动蒲公英的发展，让更多的爱心朋友加入到我们的队伍；

7、每一个捐书点每年至少捐12本图书；

8、在捐书点整理一个角落堆放捐赠物品；

9、捐书点需要悬挂蒲公英捐书点logo或者摆放蒲公英捐书计划的宣传单页，摆放蒲公英捐书点联络图：

10、每月的10日需要电话将统计好的图书等汇总通知地区捐书点负责人或者直接通知取书负责人，安排时间收取图书；

11、每一位捐书的朋友都需要捐书点将捐书人姓名、电话、邮箱做统一记录；

12、有关于孩子需要书籍的信息请咨询地区负责人，让所有的捐书点一起为他们努力；

注明：

【图书】健康、有益儿童身心发展的课外书、字典、知识性刊物；

【其他】儿童智力玩具、体育用品；

地区捐书点负责人：罗林联系方式：***

电子邮件：8198147@qq.com

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.