【中英对照】王力宏牛津大学演讲稿：认识华流(1)

王力宏牛津大学演讲稿第一篇：王力宏牛津大学演讲稿中英文全篇leehom wang oxford union speechexception。

because knowing both of a coin i reallythink thatthere’s a love story willing to be told and willing tounfold。

i’m willing to tointerpret the love storybecause i believe it is the story that will save us，will bring ustogether。

and my thesisstatement for today’s talk is that the relationship between east and west needsto be and can be fixed via pop culture。

（laughing。

）i’m going to try toback it up！the united nationssecretary general ban ki-moon said：“there are no languages required in a musicworld。

that is the power of music and that’s the power of theheart。

through this promotion of arts we can better understand theculture and civilizations of the other people。

in this eraofinstability and intolerance we need to promote better understanding throughthe power of music。

王力宏牛津大学演讲稿2篇以下是应届毕业生演讲稿网站为大家提供的王力宏在牛津大学的英文演讲稿原文(附中文翻译)：thank you, plena. thank you, jun. thank you, peishan for helping this set up.谢谢波琳娜，谢谢君，谢谢珮姗帮我组织这一切。

thank you all for being here today and the late comers as well. thank you for coming in quietly.谢谢在座的各位，谢谢晚来的同学，也谢谢你们悄悄的进来。

i wanna start off today just to take a moment of silence for the victims of the sichuan earthquake and also for the v ictims of the boston marathon bombing. so let’s just take a minute to pay our respect to that.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。

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 1 / 49o2 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 to day, 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。

王力宏牛津大学演讲稿英语Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, it is my great honor to be standing here at the University of Oxford, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Today, I am here to share with you my thoughts on the power of music and the importance of cultural exchange in our global society.Music has always been a universal language that transcends boundaries and connects people from different backgrounds. As an artist, I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to share my music with audiences around the world. Through my experiences, I have come to realize the profound impact that music can have on fostering understanding and empathy among diverse cultures.In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, it is more important than ever to embrace cultural exchange and celebrate our differences. By engaging with music from different traditions and learning about the stories and experiences behind the melodies, we can gain a deeper appreciation for the rich tapestry of human expression.I believe that the role of artists and musicians extends beyond entertainment; we have the power to serve as cultural ambassadors and bridge builders. Through our music, we can promote dialogue, inspire positive change, and bring people together in a spirit of harmony and mutual respect.In my own career, I have sought to incorporate elements of traditional Chinese music into my work, blending East and West to create a unique and dynamic sound. I have also collaborated with artists from diverse backgrounds, recognizing the value of cross-cultural exchange in enriching the creative process and broadening the scope of artistic expression.As we look to the future, I hope to see more opportunities for cultural exchange and collaboration across borders. By embracing diversity and nurturing a spirit of openness and inclusivity, we can create a more harmonious and interconnected world.In conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the University of Oxford for hosting me today. I am confident that the discussions and interactions that take place within these walls will contribute to the advancement of global understanding and cooperation. Let us continue to harness the power of music and cultural exchange to build a brighter and more unified world for generations to come.Thank you.。

王力宏牛津大学精彩演讲王力宏是台湾知名歌手，台湾裔美籍华人创作国语流行男歌手，亦是亚洲乐坛最具代表性之一，有“台湾第一优质偶像”之称。

今天店铺给大家分享一篇王力宏牛津大学的精彩演讲，希望对大家有所帮助。

王力宏牛津大学精彩演讲Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishan for helping this set up.谢谢波琳娜，谢谢君，谢谢姗帮我组织这一切。

Thank you all for being here today and the late comers as well. Thank you for coming in quietly.谢谢在座的各位，谢谢晚来的同学，也谢谢你们悄悄的进来。

I wanna start off today just to take a moment of silence for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake and also for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing. So let’s just take a minute to pay our respect to that.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。

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。

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 just 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, 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 this famous quote ?ing by Rhodes Scholar (全称：Team Rhodes Scholars •中文名：罗氏奖学金,罗氏高端学历者，高端文艺青年•首次登台：2012年9月26日•成员：Cody Rhodes,Damien Sandow)and Oxford Lum Joseph Nine is to find the ability to attract and persuade. Shaxi Through called it in a recent Tat Talk 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 cllige（2：41）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 would be scared that the others would steal the shower time or wants a party then the other one wants to study. It has the potential to be absolutely 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 are kidding me. All right, 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. 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 Chiese speakers and audience. Frank would “火力全开”on that bong every day. So, yes I was kind ofopposite of Bill Clinton who tried America but didn’t in hell. I didn’t try a but I did in hell. 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 “Due, it is already ten o’clock.”. So, how many of you have lived with a Frank, or could be a Frank Gat? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disater, but it has the potential for being the greatest friendship you have ever had. See, Frank, he didn’t make it to a second year. And I had two new roommates in the second year, Stephen and Jason. And till this day, the three of us are the best 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 conplex. Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid(多疑的) about the United States? Or the AFP, Agence France-Presse, human rights in China worsening US fines? Blumer says, in the cover of this magazine, Yes, The Chinese Army is Spying on You. ( And in such a great. I just want to show you the cover ofwhat about how westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for westerners. The most common of which are “鬼佬”, in Cantonese, which means the “old devil”, “老外”, meaning the outsider in Madraine, “阿毛”, which means the “red hair one” in T aiwanese. 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 imperant 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 butgeoning(蓬勃发展的) economy, the unique politics. It’s 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 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 willing 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 statemtn for today’s talk is that, the relationship between the eastclaim.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,friendships and even love. So I have a strong keens in promoting misic between cultures because it happened to me early in 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 foundamentally 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’tcould laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the Americans because I was one of them. Right? Wrong. On may levels. And I was facing the first, but definitely not the last time, the harsh reality that I wasperson. 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 wasSo I just took it in. And I didn’t tell anyone, I didn’t share with anyone these feelings. I just held them in and I let them fester(融化，溃烂). Andgood at violin, and guitar, and drums. And I soon discorved that by playing music or singing, other kids would, for brief moment, forget about my race and color and accept me and 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 Je t'aime . I am not kidding. I wan in the rock band called Je t'aime before that everyone knows. So when Je t'aime came, Brain and I were like “Hey, he is still in 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 wallbetween us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different. And 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 rool of influence and inspiration. Sam was my high school genitor(12:04), He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English. Sam scraped the floors and cleaned the bathrooms in our high school for twenty years. And he never talked to the kids and the kids never talked td 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 approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I have kept to this day. It was scrolled in a shaky hand written in all capitals. And it read: “In all my years of working as a genitor at (), 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 teller, 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. (YES!) 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 hope you can go with me.). And is this intrici 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 mak 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 song! Sided!？）But actually there is truth in that. And the argueent being that the content we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive, andwhy 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 we are, that big in powerful, over 160 cities in China with a million or more people. It turned in kind of turn-inward and be complacent(自满的). So it certainly can be an arguement made for Chinese pop being not marked with international sensibilities in mind. But the other side of the arguement, 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（17：00）is because that’s exactly what I went through. So I happen to knowa thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a westerner. Cause I was17 years old when I went from being a Asian kid in America to being an American kid in China. And the entire paradise I was in suddenly got flipped on its head.(17:24) I grow up listening to BC Boys, Roses. And I found myself in Taiwan, listening to the radio and thinking,, “where is the B? Where is the screeching(呼啸声) 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 volum 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 hismusic. 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(顿悟）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, rhythems 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 try of truth. 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 weridoes(古怪的人).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 as palatable（使人愉悦的，随人心愿的）as they first listen.What else should 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, AM3, Transformers 53 . It’sbeginning 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（日流）, there was K-pop(韩流）, there was C-pop（Chinese pop华流). And there is like this W-pop（宏流？）That’s kind of starting to emerge. This world pop. And I think. Yeah, I love that idea. It’s not world music. It’s not. There used to be a section HIV called world music (WORLD MUSIC(世界音乐)是西方角度观点的词汇，意思指非英、美及西方民歌/流行曲的音乐，通常指发展中地区或落后地区的传统音乐，例如非洲及南亚洲地区的音乐，有些地区如拉丁美洲的音乐，则能普及到自成一种类型。

王力宏牛津大学演讲稿--其他演讲王力宏牛津大学演讲稿Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishan for helping this set up.谢谢波琳娜,谢谢君,谢谢珮姗帮我组织这一切。

Thank you all for being here today a nd the late comers as well. Thank you for coming in quietly. 谢谢在座的各位,谢谢晚来的同学,也谢谢你们悄悄的进来。

I wanna start off today just to take a moment of silence for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake a nd also for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing. So let’s just take a minute to pay our respect to that.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。

Thank you.谢谢你们。

I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union, without a guitar o r 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。

Leehom Wang Oxford Union speechexception。

because knowing both of a coin I reallythink thatthere’s a love story willing to be told and willing tounfold。

I’m willing to tointerpret the love storybecause I believe it is the story that will save us，will bring ustogether。

And my thesisstatement for today’s talk is that the relationship between east and west needsto be and can be fixed via pop culture。

（laughing。

）I’m going to try toback it up！The United NationsSecretary 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 theheart。

Through this promotion of arts we can better understand theculture and civilizations of the other people。

In this eraofinstability and intolerance we need to promote better understanding throughthe power of music。

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 just 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, 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 this famous quote ?ing by Rhodes Scholar (全称：Team Rhodes Scholars∙中文名：罗氏奖学金,罗氏高端学历者，高端文艺青年∙首次登台：2012年9月26日∙成员：Cody Rhodes,Damien Sandow)and Oxford Lum Joseph Nine is to find the ability to attract and persuade. Shaxi Through called it in a recent Tat Talk 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 cllige（2：41）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 would be scared that the others would steal the shower time or wants a party then the other one wants to study. It has the potential to be absolutely 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 are kidding me. All right, 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. 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 Chiese speakers and audience. Frank would “火力全开” on that bong every day. So, yes I was kind of opposite of Bill Clinton who tried America but didn’t in hell. I didn’t try a but I did in hell. 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 “Due, it is already ten o’clock.”. So, how many of you have lived with a Frank, or could be a Frank Gat? Having a roommate can be a recipe for disater, but it has thepotential for being the greatest friendship you have ever had. See, Frank, he didn’t make it to a second year. And I had two new roommates in the second year, Stephen and Jason. And till this day, the three of us are the best 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 conplex. Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid(多疑的) about the United States? Or the AFP, Agence France-Presse, human rights in China worsening US fines? Blumer says, in the cover of this magazine, Yes, The Chinese Army is Spying on You. ( And in such a great. I just want to show you the cover of the magazine.) So, it actually in extremely high mount （5：56）of negative fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just missing form, but also misleading and also it’s ?dangerous, very dangerous. And what about how westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for westerners. The most common of which are “鬼佬”, in Cantonese, which means the “old devil”, “老外”, meaning the outsider in Madraine, “阿毛”, 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 imperant 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 butgeoning(蓬勃发展的) economy, the unique politics. It’s 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 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 willing 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 statemtn 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, Bunki Boo, “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 hatred with acceptance, friendships and even love. So I have a strong keens in promoting misic between cultures because it happened to me early in 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 Americanas 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 foundamentally 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 may 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 one person. 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 ? (10:19)and we both knew that. So I just took it in. And I didn’t tell anyone, I didn’t share with anyone these feelings. I just held them in and I let them fester(融化，溃烂). And those feelings would surface in a strangly therapied 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 discorved that by playing music or singing, other kids would, for brief moment, forget about my race and color and accept me and 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 Je t'aime . I am not kidding. I wan in the rock band called Je t'aime before that everyone knows. So when Je t'aime came, Brain and I were like “Hey, he is still in 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 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 rool of influence and inspiration. Sam was my high school genitor(12:04), He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English. Sam scraped the floors and cleaned the bathrooms in our high school for twenty years. And he never talked to the kids and the kids never talked td 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 approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I have kept to this day. It was scrolled in a shaky hand written in all capitals. And it read: “In all my years of working as a genitor at (), 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 whobarely spoke English. Pop culture, music, and other methods of story teller, 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. (YES!) 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 hope you can go with me.). And is this intrici 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 mak 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 song! Sided!？）But actually there is truth in that. And the argueent 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 we are, that big in powerful, over 160 cities in China with a million or more people. It turned in kind of turn-inward and be complacent(自满的). So it certainly can be an arguement made for Chinese pop being not marked with international sensibilities in mind. But the other side of the arguement, 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（17：00）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 China. And the entire paradise I was in suddenly got flipped on its head.(17:24) I grow up listening to BC Boys, Roses. And I found myself in Taiwan, listening to the radio and thinking,, “where is the B? Where is the screeching(呼啸声) 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 volum 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(顿悟）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, rhythems 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 try of truth. 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 weridoes(古怪的人).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 as palatable （使人愉悦的，随人心愿的）as they first listen.What else should 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, AM3, Transformers 53 . 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（日流）, there was K-pop(韩流）, there was C-pop （Chinese pop华流). And there is like this W-pop（宏流？）That’s kind of starting to emerge. This world pop. And I think. Yeah, I love that idea. It’s not world music. It’s not. There used to be a section HIV called world music (WORLD MUSIC(世界音乐)是西方角度观点的词汇，意思指非英、美及西方民歌/流行曲的音乐，通常指发展中地区或落后地区的传统音乐，例如非洲及南亚洲地区的音乐，有些地区如拉丁美洲的音乐，则能普及到自成一种类型。

王力宏演讲稿王力宏演讲稿Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishanfor helping this set up.Thank you all for being here today and the late comers aswell. Thank you for coming in quietly.感谢在座的各位，感谢晚来的同学，也感谢你们静静的进来。

I wanna start off today just to take a moment of silencefor the victims of the Sichuan earthquake and also for thevictims of the Boston marathon bombing. So let ’s just take a minuteto pay our respect to that.Thank you.今天开始从前，我想要先为四川地震的难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。

感谢你们。

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 inthe O2 Arena in London last week. I am not sure if any of youwere able to make that. But in many ways, that was similar towhat I ’m talking about today, that is, introducing Chinesepop music here.尊敬的各位牛津大学争论会和牛津大学亚太学生会的同学们，千万想不到会以这样的方式跟你们相聚。

王力宏牛津大学演讲稿(精选多篇)于是今天，我的号召是什么呢？我想要帮助推进东西方之间的多元文化交流。

这一点我想我已经表达的很清楚了，但是如何做到呢？我觉着吧，你们都可以出道嘛，这样就好了。

我开个玩笑。

不过如果成为歌手真的是你想做的事情那就另当别论了。

我在此，号召各位，请务必在东方与西方横亘的隔阂间，建立一种室友般的情谊。

并且能尽所能及的保护这份情谊，珍惜它，拥有它。

千万不要千里迢迢从台湾跑来牛津大学当交换生还一天到晚只和中国学生聚一块。

你说你这是干嘛对吧？这些事你在武汉，在南京，在老家的时候都能做对吧。

那些标题党，那些陈词滥调，那些超民族主义，别买他们的账。

你应当学会自己判断，这个原则同样适用于研究东西方。

把一件件来龙去脉搞清楚，独立思考，对那些天花乱坠的东西不要偏听则信。

要是哪一天，你能做到漠视政府的鼓吹，忽视媒体的通稿，据理力争只为真理，动用“批判思维”的武器，是不是就能建立起那份情谊了呢？到那时，每个人都是独立的个体，个人不再是隶属于某个种族或是国家的无脸人？我们当然能做到。

这是目标，也是理想。

这是浪漫艺术家和音乐人亘古不变的初心。

也是我想要极力撮成的一种情谊。

正因如此，音乐和艺术的力量才这样强大，这样真切。

正是这些力量让横亘期间的壁垒土崩瓦解。

那些我们在彼此之间人为制造的隔阂，政府或者国籍，肤色。

黑色，棕色，黄色和白色，无论哪一种肤色。

也是这些力量让我们能够单程我们的内心，我们的恐惧，我们的希望，我们的梦想。

最终我们就会发现，“远东”也并没有那么遥远。

西方也并非都是蛮荒一片。

通过了解彼此的流行文化，探到彼此的内心，触碰彼此的灵魂。

如果你们正想踏上这条贯通东西的征途，我诚挚的邀请你们和我一起加入这场奇幻之旅。

作为在这条联通东西方之间的路上还算有点经验的人，我为你们准备了一只合集的卡带，里面收录了十首我爱的华语流行音乐。

看，你们感受一下。

本来今天我是给你们每人准备了cd的，但是我的团队好心提醒我说，这么做是不合法的。