王力宏在牛津大学的演讲稿.docVIP

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 th