【正文】 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 don’t like it!” I 。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 was a powerful tool of influence and [Nguyen?] was my high school was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to 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 ’m going to bring my 6yearold daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be that letter just floored was 15 years old and I was absolutely was the first time I realized how music was so Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to bee friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the was an even higher level。第四篇：王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講英文全文王力宏牛津大學(xué)演講英文全文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 ’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 , 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 ’s not the Oxford Union, it’s the union of East and 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 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 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 Tharoor called it, in a recent TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a pelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that I want to put it in collegiate term for you students in the way I see it, East and West, are kinda like freshmen don’t know a lot about each other aside that you’re living with each other in the same each one is scared the other’s gonna steal his shower time or wants to party when the other wants to has the potential to be absolute all have horror stories of that roommate, we all heard about those know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a he was that ’s just call him Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every Frank had a 2foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全開 on that 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 single strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for 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 , Frank, he didn’t make it to second I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of 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 ’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive , let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim plex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than 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 what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for most mon 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 are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little 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 ’s not just those burgeoning economy with unique is not just the wor