2013.04.21 牛津大学《认识华流》演讲.docVIP

I never thought l 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 have been there then. 我从没想过我会站在这里和各位尊敬的牛津大学学生俱乐部会员发表言论。没有吉他或是二胡，也没有华丽的造型和舞台上的发型。不过上个星期，我在伦敦O2 Arena开了一场演唱会，不知道在场的朋友有没有人到现场了。 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, it’s the union of East and West. 但从各个方面来看都和我今天的主题有所关联，那就是介绍华语音乐。在华语流行音乐和电影方面，我都被视为正在代表着华语流行的大使，不管我喜不喜欢。那么今天，我就想与大家分享一个联盟演讲，不是牛津“联盟”，而是中西联盟。 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. 我想要以坦白，开放和诚恳的方式来解析我们是如何把华语流行带来西方，无论是在好的或坏的方面。同时，我也想让大家明白在软实力交流这方面所需要的努力，也想让你们知道在这个文化交流上，你我所扮演的角色。 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 TED Talk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with him”. I like that definition. But I want to put it in a plainer 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 stor