王力宏牛津大学演讲Word文件下载.docx

1、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 lets 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,

2、 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 Ch

3、inese 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. Its not the Oxford Union. Its the union of east and west. I want to frankly, openly and honestly talk about how weve done a good job or how weve done a b

4、ad 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 powers 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

5、（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

6、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 dont know a lot about each other but suddenly you are living together in the same room. And each one would be

7、 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 sepa

8、rate 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. Lets just call him Frank. So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed. And he did it

9、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 didnt in hell. I didnt try a but I did in hell. Every

10、 single day, second hand. And strangely enough every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up late for calss . I dont know what happened. It was like “Due, it is already ten oclock.” So, how many of you have lived with a Frank, or could be a Frank Gat? Having a roommate can be a recipe for

11、disater, but it has the potential for being the greatest friendship you have ever had. See, Frank, he didnt 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 w

12、est, 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, shouldnt we? I mean I am assuming that we all agree that this is the goal that we should all be strving for. Lets look at where we are in rea

13、lity. Recent headlines in the media include foreign policy magazine. Chinese victim complex . 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 Arm

14、y 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 its ?dangerous, very dangerous. And w

15、hat 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

16、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 thats the purpose of a higher education. And thats why we are here to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisi