【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 u, 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 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 foster an understanding between the [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it , the UN SecGen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical is the power of is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of UN SecGen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of didn39。t know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt I laughed along with I didn39。t know what els