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  • Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishan, for helping to set this up.

    謝謝 Plena ,謝謝 Jun ,謝謝珮姍幫我安排這一切

  • Thank you all for being here today and the late comers as well. Thank you for coming in quietly.

    謝謝在座的各位,也謝謝晚來的聽眾安靜的進來

  • I wanna start off today just to take a moment of silence

    今天開始之前,我想要先替

  • for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake and also for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing.

    四川大地震和波士頓馬拉松爆炸事件的受害者們默哀

  • So let's just take a minute to pay our respect to them.

    讓我們用一分鐘的時間為他們祈福

  • Thank you.

    謝謝你們

  • I never thought I would be addressing you, the esteemed members of the Oxford Union

    我從沒想過能向各位敬重的牛津同學們演講

  • without a guitar or an Erhu, without my crazy stage hair, costumes.

    而且是在沒有吉他、二胡、誇張的髮型和表演服裝之下

  • But I did perform in the O2 Arena in London last week. I'm not sure if any of you were able to make that.

    但上週確實有在倫敦的 O2 體育館表演。不知道你們有沒有去

  • But in many ways, that was similar to what I'm talking about today, that is, introducing Chinese pop music to you.

    從各方面來說,那場表演跟今天我要講的是類似的事情,都是在推廣中華流行音樂

  • See, I'm actually an ambassador for Chinese pop, whether I like it or not, both music and movies.

    其實不論我喜不喜歡,我就像是在擔任中文流行歌或電影的大使

  • And today, I'm here to give you the state of union address.

    那麼今天,我就要向各位做「國情咨文」的報告

  • It's not the Oxford union. It's the union of East and West.

    這個「國」並不是牛津,而是東西方的聯合

  • I wanna 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.

    我想要很坦誠的跟各位聊聊我們在引介華流進入西方世界這塊到底做得好不好

  • And I also want to press upon all of you today the importance of that soft culture,

    同時我也想讓你們永遠記得軟實力交流的重要性

  • that soft power exchange and how each of us is involved in that exchange.

    還有這樣的交流會如何影響到我們每個人

  • Soft power, a term I'm sure you're all familiar with at this point.

    軟實力這個詞我相信大家都不陌生

  • Coined by Rhodes Scholar and Oxford alumnus Joseph Nye is defined as the ability to attract and persuade.

    這是由 Rhodes Scholar 和 牛津校友 Joseph Nye 所提出的,被定義為一種吸引和說服的能力

  • ShashiTharoor called it, in a recent TED talk, the ability for a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with it.

    ShashiTharoor 在最近的一次 TED 演講上,把這種能力解釋為「一個文化說了令人讚嘆的故事,讓其他文化足以因此改變、接納、並愛上那個文化」

  • I like that definition.

    我喜歡這樣的解釋

  • But I want to put it in collegiate term for all you students in the audience: The way I see it, East and West are kind of like freshman roommates.

    但我想用更貼近在座大學生們的言語來解釋:對我來說,東西方文化就像大一剛入學的室友一樣

  • You don't know a lot about each other but suddenly you're living together in the same room.

    你們還來不及了解對方之前就被分到同一間房間

  • And each one is scared that the other's gonna steal his shower time, or wants a party when the other wants to study.

    雙方都害怕著對方會影響到他洗澡的時間,或當其中一個想要開趴的時候另一個卻想讀書

  • It has the potential to be absolute hell, doesn't it?

    這很有可能會像住在地獄一樣悲慘,不是嗎?

  • We all had horror stories of that roommate. We've all heard about those stories.

    我們都曾有過,也曾聽過那些恐怖室友的故事

  • I know a lot of students here in Oxford have your own separate bedrooms.

    我知道很多在牛津就讀的學生有自己的房間

  • But when I was a freshman at Williams College, I was not so fortunate.

    但我剛進入威廉姆斯學院時,可沒有那麼幸運。

  • You're kidding me. Woo-hoo! Alright, alright. Great.

    你是我們學校的?好極了!

  • Well, I had a roommate, and he was that roommate. Let's just call him Frank.

    這個嘛,我當時就有那樣的恐怖室友,就叫他 Frank 吧

  • So, Frank was my roommate and Frank like nothing more than to smoke weed. And he did it everyday.

    Frank 是個除了抽大麻外就沒有其他嗜好的人,而且每天都抽

  • And Frank had a two-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.

    他床底下有個兩英呎長的煙斗,無時無刻都會被點燃

  • For those Chinese speakers in the audience Frank would "火力全開–‹" on that bong everyday.

    我來形容一下給會講中文的人聽, Frank 每天都對著那個煙斗火力全開

  • So, I guess I was kind of the opposite of Bill Clinton who tried Marijuana but didn't inhale. I didn't try Marijuana but I did inhale.

    所以我猜我應該是跟 Bill Clinton 相反,他嘗試大麻但沒有吸進去,而我沒有想要吸卻吸進去了

  • Every single day, second hand.

    每天都吸,二手的

  • And strangely enough every time I go into our bedroom I mysteriously end up late for class.

    奇怪的是,每當我進去我們的房間,我上課就會離奇的遲到

  • I don't know how that happened. It was like, "Dude, is it already 10 o'clock?"

    我不知道發生了什麼是,就好像「什麼?已經十點了?」

  • So, how many of you have lived with the Frank? Or, could be a Frank Gat?

    所以,有多少人曾經有過這樣的室友?還是你們就是那種室友?

  • Having a roommate can be a recipe for disaster, but it also has the potential for being the greatest friendship you've ever had.

    擁有一個室友可能會是災難的開始,但也可能造就一段最珍貴的友誼

  • See, Frank, he didn't make it to second year. And I got two new roommates second year.

    Frank 第二年就輟學了,我也因此有了兩個新室友

  • Stephan and Jason. And in this day, the three of us are the best friends.

    Stephan 和 Jason 。直到今天,我們仍是最好的朋友

  • So going back to my analogy of East and West as roommates.

    所以回到我對於東西方文化就如同室友的比喻

  • Do we wanna be Frank, or do we wanna be Stephan and Jason?

    我們要像 Frank 那樣,還是要像 Stephan 跟 Jason 那樣呢?

  • And I think, in this day and age of 2013, we should all striving for the latter, shouldn't we?

    我想,在現在這個年代,我們應該要為後者那樣的結果努力,對吧?

  • I mean, I'm assuming that we all agree that this is the goal we should all be striving for.

    我的意思是,我假設我們應該都要朝著這個目標前進。

  • Now, let'€™s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include

    現在,讓我們來看看目前的進展。看看最近出現在媒體上的頭條:

  • Foreign Policy magazine, China'€™s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States

    「外交政策」雜誌上的,「中國的受害者情結:為什麼中國領導人如此猜忌美國?」

  • or the AFP, Agence France Presse, Human rights in China worsening, US finds.

    或是 AFP ,法新社,「美國指出中國人權每況愈下」

  • Bloomberg says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you.

    「彭博商業周刊」的封面標題說,「是的,中國軍隊正在監視你」

  • And it’s such a great one that I just want to show you the cover of the magazine. Yes, be very afraid!

    這真的讓我驚艷到想跟你們分享一下。沒錯,請戒慎恐懼

  • There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia,

    這事實上是對於中國投射了非常多的負面能量、恐懼、和焦慮,

  • that I think is not just misinformed but also misleading and ultimately dangerous. Very dangerous.

    我認為這不僅是誤傳,也是一種非常危險的誤導。

  • And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese?

    那華人又是怎麼看待西方人的呢?

  • Well, we have terms for Westerners. The most common of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which meansthe old devil”,

    這個嘛,我們有很多形容詞。最常見的是「鬼老」,就是廣東話的「老妖」

  • laowai, meaningthe old outsiderin Mandarin, ang moh, which meansthe red hairy onein Taiwanese, and the list goes on and on.

    「老外」,也就是普通話的「蠻夷」。還有「紅毛」,是台語的「紅頭髮的人」的意思

  • So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.

    所以這些室友有想要變成好朋友嗎?我想我們需要一些幫助

  • And as China rises to be a global power, I think it is more important than ever for us to be discerning about what we believe because after all,

    隨著中國勢力不斷增強為世界強權,我們現在看清楚該相信什麼比以前都還重要

  • 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 decisions.

    我認為這就是高等教育的目的,也是為什麼我們坐在這裡,去獨立思考、自主判斷

  • China’s not just those headlines. The burgeoning economy with unique politics.

    中國絕不只是那些頭條所說的那樣,不只是一個在特殊政策下快速成長的經濟體

  • It is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower.

    更不只是世界的工廠或是下一個超級大國

  • 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 two.

    中國的意義遠比那些來得多,是一個擁有十幾億人口,伴隨著豐富的文化與故事的國家。身為中西文化的共同產物,我想幫忙兩種文化相互理解

  • And help create 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 unfold.

    並建立無可比擬的美好關係。正因為了解到事情的兩面,我真心認為其中蘊含著一段愛情故事等著我們去講述

  • And 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 together.

    當我說到愛情故事時,我並不完全在說笑。因為我認為這正是會拯救我們並讓大家更靠近彼此的故事

  • And 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.

    我今天演講的主旨就是:中西方文化的關係可以藉由流行文化來改善

  • That's a big fat claim, and I’m going to try to back it up.

    聽起來像是在說大話對吧,我會努力為它負責的

  • Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said,

    聯合國秘書長潘基文曾說過

  • There are no languages required in the musical world. That is the power of music. That is the power of heart.”

    「在音樂的世界裡,溝通是不需要言語的。那就是音樂的力量。是人心的力量」

  • Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilization of other people.

    透過推廣藝術,我們能夠容易去了解其他民族與文化。

  • And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.

    在這個動盪不安與缺乏寬容的世代,我們更需要藉由音樂的力量來更加了解彼此

  • The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.

    聯合國秘書長認為我們需要更多的音樂,我很認同。

  • Music 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 love.

    音樂與藝術在我人生中一直扮演非常重要的角色。在建立情誼中,幫助我用包容、友誼,甚至是愛來取代無知、恐懼和憎恨

  • So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.

    在不同的文化推廣音樂這點上,我童年的經歷就是非常好的例子

  • I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese. I didn't know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.

    我生長在紐約的羅切斯特,幾乎不會講中文。我連台灣和泰國都分不清楚

  • I was...It's true.

    ...這是真的

  • I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being Chinese.

    我當時就是個美國人,直到三年級的某一天,我在操場遊玩時,無法避免的事情發生了:我被取笑了,因為我是中國人

  • Now every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and there.

    所有的小孩在操場上都會被取笑,但我清楚了解這是完全不一樣的情況

  • So this kid let’s call him Brian McKilroy. He started making fun of me, sayingChinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!”

    就叫那個孩子 Brian Mckilroy 吧。他開我這樣的玩笑:「中國人,日本人,髒膝蓋,快來看」

  • I can't believe you're laughing at that - that hurts! Ok, I'm just kidding.

    你居然笑得出來,真是傷了我的心!好啦我只是開個玩笑

  • I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed. But I laughed along with him, with everyone.

    我還記得當時的感覺,我覺得被羞辱且很丟臉。但我跟著他和其他所有人一起笑

  • And I didn't know what else to do. It was like having an out of body experience.

    我不知道該怎麼辦,好像身體不是我的一樣

  • As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right?

    好像我能夠像操場上其他美國孩子一起嘲笑中國人,我就是他們的一份子了,是這樣嗎?

  • Wrong, on many levels.

    大錯特錯,非常不可取

  • And I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.

    而那是我第一次,且絕不是最後一次,感受到殘酷的現實:我屬於少數群體,那時的羅切絲特只有1%的亞洲人。

  • And I was confused. I wanted to punch Brian.

    我感到不解,想要揍 Brian 一拳

  • I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me,

    我想要傷害他,讓他為自己的行為負責。但他比我靈活又比我強壯

  • and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.

    我知道我會被打得落花流水,他也知道,所以只好忍著

  • I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.

    我從來沒有跟別人分享過這些感受,就這樣悶在心理並且讓自己更痛苦

  • And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music,

    神奇的是,這些感受對我之後學習音樂的過程有很大的幫助

  • and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.

    而且就是在那時我在小提琴、吉他、打鼓上面都表現得更好了,這不是巧合

  • And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment

    我也發現在我演奏音樂或唱歌時,其他孩子在那個當下會暫時

  • forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am:

    忘記我的種族和膚色,並接納我,進而看到真實的我:

  • a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.

    一個富有感情、靈魂、對於世界充滿好奇的人類,並且需要被關愛,就像其他人一樣

  • And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would be the drummer of their band? Brian McKilroy. And I said yes.

    接著到了六年級,猜猜看誰邀請我當任他們樂團的鼓手?就是 Brian McKilroy,我也答應了

  • And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band calledNirvana.

    就是那時我們組成一個小學搖滾樂團,叫做 Nirvana

  • I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain's Nirvana was ever known

    我沒有在開玩笑,我在一個叫做 Nirvana 的樂團,而當時 Kurt Cobain 的 Nirvana 還沒有出現

  • So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!

    所以當 Nirvana 出現時,Brian 和我就表示「嘿!他偷了我們的名字」

  • But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just this, and still is what I love about music,

    但對我來說音樂真正吸引當時年幼的我直到今天的地方在於

  • is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different.

    它打破了人們之間那道無形的牆,讓我們了解到彼此其實是相似的

  • And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.

    到了高中,我更學到了音樂不只是連結彼此而已(就像 Brian 和我)

  • It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.

    它更是能夠影響並鼓舞他人的強大工具

  • Sam Nguyen was my high school janitor. He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.

    Sam Nguyen 是我高中的工友。他是來自越南的移民,幾乎不會講英文

  • Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.

    Sam 已經在我們學校打掃了二十年了

  • He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.

    他從不跟學生們講話,學生們也從來沒跟他講過話。

  • But one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter,

    但有一天,在我們學校一年一度的音樂劇表演開始前,他走向我,手裡拿著一封信

  • and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me?

    我向後退並想著, Sam 為什麼要靠近我?

  • 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,

    接著他給了我這封我一直保存到今天的信。這封信被他顫抖的手捏得皺巴巴的,且全部用英文大寫寫道:

  • in my all years working as a janitor at Sutherland, you were the first Asian boy to play the lead role.

    在 Sutherland 當任工友那麼多年來,你是第一個當上主角的亞洲人

  • I’m going to bring my 6-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.

    我要帶我六歲的女兒來看你今晚的表演,因為我想讓她知道亞洲人也有能力鼓舞其他人

  • And that letter just floored me. I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.

    那封信嚇到我了。我當時才15歲,我完完全全被驚呆了

  • That was the first time I realized how music was so important.

    那是我第一次了解到音樂是如此的重要

  • With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.

    遇到 Brian 時,音樂讓兩個敵對的孩子成為朋友,但在 Sam 的情況,音樂的意義遠超過了一對一的範疇

  • It was an even higher level; it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.

    達到了更高的境界:它影響了我完全不認識的人們,用我完全無法想像的方式

  • I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam the janitor to this day. He really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose,

    我無法形容我有多感謝 Sam,直到今天都是。他是其中一位幫助我找到人生意義的人

  • and I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.

    而我從來沒想過,我做的事情會對一個從越南來的,連英文都不太會講的人有如此大的意義

  • Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.

    流行文化、音樂、還有其他像是說故事、電影、戲劇,它們是如此的重要,並且連結人們,像我跟 Brian,同時也能影響和鼓舞我們

  • Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.

    再讓我們回頭看一下這個東西方聯盟的國情諮詢,其實存在著軟實力的偏見

  • How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates?

    這兩個室友間的軟實力交流的如何呢?

  • Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? For sure.

    在中國有暢銷的英文歌嗎?當然有

  • How about movies? Well, there are so many that China has had to limit the number of Hollywood movies imported into the country so that local films could even have a chance at success.

    電影呢?這個嘛,實在是太多了所以中國必須限制好萊塢電影進軍的數量,好讓國產電影能有一點生存的機會

  • What about the flip side of that, well, the Chinese songs that have hit in the west?

    那反過來呢?中國歌曲有席捲西方國家嗎?

  • Well... [inaudible answer from an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.

    摁...是的,還有電影,喔對了有臥虎藏龍,但已經是十三年前的事了

  • Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.

    我覺得這有點失衡了

  • And I think it's “soft power deficit”, let's call it that, when we look in this direction, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.

    我認為這是種「軟實力赤字」,就這樣稱呼吧。當我們朝這個方向望去時,也就是說西方對東方的影響遠大於東方對西方的影響。

  • Forgive me for usingEastandWestkinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say thanEnglish-speakinglanguageorAsian-speakinglanguage/Chinese”,

    原諒我如此隨變得使用東方和西方,因為這比起稱呼「以英文為母語的國家」或是「講中文或講粵語的國家」還要簡單得多

  • I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.

    我在使用一種概括的方式去表達,希望你們能夠理解

  • And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.

    這在本質上是個問題,這種流行文化影響的失衡

  • And I think so. In any healthy relationship, friendship, marriage, isn’t it important for both sides to make an effort to understand the other?

    而我也這樣認為。在任何健全的關係中,不論是友情還是婚姻,雙方都盡力去了解對方不是很重要的事嗎?

  • And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance.

    這樣的交流必須取得健全的平衡

  • And how do we address this?

    那麼該怎麼做到這點呢?

  • As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist?

    身為一個中華流行音樂與電影的大使,我必須問我自己一個問題:為何這樣的赤字會產生?

  • Is it because Chinese music just is.. lame? Don't answer that, please.

    是因為中文歌很...無聊嗎?拜託不要那樣回答

  • Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song! Psy did it!

    對,我想你們有些人可能會覺得,別再抱怨了!趕快寫一首會爆紅的歌吧!Psy 大叔就辦到了!

  • But there’s truth in that. The argument being that, the content that weve created just isn’t as internationally competitive. And why shouldn’t it be?

    其實那背後是有些道理的。爭執的點在於,我們所創作的東西確實少了國際競爭力,然而這是為什麼呢?

  • Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.

    看看韓國流行文化

  • Korea is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.

    韓國的經濟是以出口為主,所以他們必須向外發展,沒有退路

  • Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.

    中國流行文化不同的地方在於可以只著重國內市場,只要在中國各地巡迴,專注在某些地區,也可以維持的很好

  • So when youre that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people

    所以當你的國家是如此的強大,擁有超過160個城市和上百萬的聽眾

  • you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent. So this certainly can be made an argument

    你會傾向滿足於自己的舒適圈裡。所以這確實能成為一個論證

  • made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities in mind.

    對於中華流行文化沒有透過國際的視野去做行銷

  • but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought-provoking and even more true

    但我認為另外一個論證更有趣、更令人深思、且更有道理

  • is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.

    也就是,西方人的耳朵聽不慣中國歌曲所以無法去理解和接受

  • Ouch!

    噢!

  • Okay.

    好吧

  • The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through

    我之所以認為這個論證是真的,是因為那就是我所經歷過的

  • so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate

    我剛好有這個機會學習用西方人的角度

  • Chinese pop as a Westerner

    去接納中文流行歌

  • 'cause I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America

    因為我十七歲的時候從「在美國的亞洲人」

  • to being an American kid in Asia

    變為「在亞洲的美國人」

  • and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.

    情況完全顛倒了過來

  • I grew up listening to the Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses, and I found myself in Taiwan listening to the radio and thinking, "where’s the beat?

    以前我是聽野獸男孩、齊柏林飛船以及槍與玫瑰長大的。到了台灣之後,我常常聽著廣播,然後心裡想著「這音樂一點節奏感都沒有!」

  • Where are the screeching guitar solos?

    「怎麼會沒有吉他獨奏?」

  • Here I am as an American kid in Asia listening to Chinese music for the first time and thinking that "this stuff is lame."

    身為一個在亞洲的美國小孩,第一次接觸華語音樂,心想「聽起來好無趣」

  • "I don't, I don't like it"

    「我不喜歡」

  • I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.

    我認為他很俗、沒什麼價值,而他們遠遠比不上艾克索爾(槍與玫瑰主唱)以及瑪莉雅凱莉

  • But then one day

    直到有一天

  • I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Yu, Cheng-Ching. Harlem Yu.

    我去了人生第一場華語演唱會,是庾澄慶,哈林

  • performing at the Taipei Music Centre

    在台北社教館的那一場

  • and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the look in their eyes and their response to his music.

    在表演現場,我環顧四周,看到了觀眾的表情、眼神的熱切以及對於音樂的迴響

  • And it was clear to me

    我瞬間明白

  • finally where the problem lay.

    問題出在哪裡

  • It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.

    並不是因為華語音樂缺少了什麼,而是我沒有用對的方法欣賞它

  • The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I had this epiphany

    看到台下的觀眾跟著哈林一起唱並沈浸在音樂當中時,我瞬間頓悟了

  • that I was missing the point

    我原本不太理解

  • and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it.

    但現在我慢慢明白

  • I was gonna learn how to hear with local ears

    如何用當地的耳朵去聆聽

  • and I deconstructed and analyzed what it was that made Chinese audiences connect with certain types of melodies, and rhythms, and song structures, and lyrics, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past almost twenty years.

    我開始解構、分析是什麼讓華語音樂的粉絲們對於特定旋律、韻腳、歌曲結構、歌詞產生共鳴。這就是我過去二十年來所做的事

  • And it took me a long time, and I'm still learning.

    這花了我不少時間,我也還在學習當中

  • but at some point, I not only began to be able to appreciate the music but I started being able to contribute to it and create my own fresh spins on the tried-and-true.

    但從某一刻開始,我不僅懂得欣賞華語音樂,甚至可以創作出自己的風格

  • And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in. It always looks strange.

    作為一個旁觀者,每個人都會這樣。

  • If you looked at things from your perspective, youre always going to think that these people are weirdos.

    當你從自己的角度出發看事情,總會覺得這世界很奇怪,覺得其他人是異類

  • What’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff?

    他們出了什麼問題?居然在聽這種音樂?

  • And I’m saying that you can make an effort and get it.

    我認為,只要你肯花心思,就一定會有收穫

  • It can be done, and I’m a living proof of that.

    我就是個親身證明

  • And as an ambassador of Chinese pop, I’m trying to get people to open up to a sound that they may not feel is palatable at the first listen.�

    身為華語音樂大使,我正在努力讓人們打開心胸,接納原本第一次聽,並不那麼喜歡的音樂

  • So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures?

    我們還能夠做些什麼,來消除流行文化中的失衡?

  • Well, maybe give a talk at the Oxford Union

    在牛津大學演講?

  • tour more outside of China?

    到中國以外的地方開演唱會?

  • But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change.

    我認為這種不平衡的趨勢已經開始改變

  • very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatingly.

    以一個非常緩慢、小心、謹慎的腳步在變化

  • You see more cross-cultural exchange now, more interest in China, definitely a lot of joint ventures, a lot of co-productions in recent years.

    跨文化的交流日益頻繁,外國公司看上中國,並發展出很多合作成果

  • Iron Man 3, Transformers...53 [laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop.

    像是鋼鐵人三、數不清的變形金剛、惡靈古堡。真的已經形成一種世界流行文化

  • and that’s what I’m looking forward to and focusing on these days. There’s J-pop, there’s K-pop, there’s C-pop

    這也是我所期待並且在關注的內容。之前有日流、韓流、華流

  • and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge. It’s world pop, and I think

    而現在世界流慢慢興起,逐漸成形

  • Yeah. I love that idea.

    我喜歡這世界流這個想法

  • It’s not World Music. It's not like, there used to be section in HMV called World Music.

    它不限於世界音樂。它不像HMV之前有個類別叫做世界音樂

  • That was like

    它比較像是

  • ...Ethnomusicology class in college.

    音樂學院的民族音樂學的概念

  • but world pop is more about breaking and tearing down

    世界流比較像是擊垮

  • age-old stereotypes

    刻板印象

  • the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.

    那些表面的界線已經侷限我們太久了

  • It’s a melting pot, and it’s a mosaic.

    這是一個大熔爐、一個馬賽克拼圖

  • that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colors and the flavors of each culture in detail.

    即時我們靠近點,還是看得到不同文化的風格與特色

  • And where can we go to listen to world pop?

    我們該去哪裡聽世界流呢?

  • I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none-there should be.

    我不認為世界流有專門的平台或雜誌-應該要有的

  • There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop. Britain’s Got Talent

    好險還有網路、Youtube被認為是推動世界流的一大主力之一

  • made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world.

    英國達人秀讓蘇珊大嬸成為世界紅人

  • and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.

    她的成功不是依靠唱片公司或是音樂圈,而是草根平民的力量

  • Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.

    江南style是另個世界流的好範例。他紅遍全世界,家喻戶曉,成為一個全球狂潮的現象

  • So world pop also suggests a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.

    世界流代表著一種流行文化,能讓全部人一同分享,讓我們有了共通點

  • So today, what’s my call to action?

    於是今天,我想要號召什麼呢?

  • I want to help improve and promote the cultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how?

    我想我已經很清楚的表示要促進東西方文化的交流,然後呢?

  • I think

    我認為

  • You can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the answer, no I'm just kidding.

    你們所有人都可以去當歌手,真的,這就是答案。喔不,我只是在開玩笑

  • unless that’s what you really want to.

    除非那真的是你想要的

  • My call to action is this:

    我的號召是:

  • build and protect that roommate relationship

    建立並保護這樣的東西方

  • between the East and West. Value this relationship and take ownership of it.

    室友關係。去重視並且擁有它

  • Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.

    不要大老遠從台灣來到牛津交換然後只交中國朋友

  • Why would you do that?

    你怎麼會想要特地跑到牛津認識中國人?

  • You could do that back in Wuhan or Nanjing or wherever you came from.

    你在家鄉就能辦到了,不論你是來自武漢、南京、還是其他地方

  • Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hyper-nationalism.

    別被那些頭條、刻板印象、超名族主義給蒙蔽了

  • Think for yourselves.

    替你自己想想吧

  • And this goes for the East and the West both. Get to know one another

    這對於東方人和西方人都適用。去認識彼此

  • and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.

    並替自己想,不要盲從

  • For a moment,

    如果有一天

  • if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying

    我們能不去理會政府和媒體所說的

  • just for the sake of the argument.

    並專注於事情的真相

  • With our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships?

    運用「批判思考」這項工具,是否就能建立良好的關係了?

  • That actually see one another as individual human beings and not faceless members of a particular ethnicity or nationality?

    那樣我們就能把每個人都視為獨立的個體,而不只是某個種族或國家的無名氏而已

  • Of course we can do that.

    我們當然能做到

  • And that’s the goal and dream, I think, of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been that.

    我認為這對於那些浪漫的藝術家和音樂家來說,這一直以來都是他們的目標與夢想

  • That's what I wish for.

    那是我所希望的

  • and that's what makes music and arts so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we've created.

    這也是為什麼音樂和藝術的力量如此強大並且如此真實,能夠馬上擊潰我們自己在

  • between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever color you are.

    彼此間、政府間、國籍間、種族間所建立的高牆

  • and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out

    讓對方看見我們的真心,不論是恐懼、希望、還是夢想,最後你會發現

  • in end that the East isn’t that far after all.

    東方也不是想像中那麼遙遠了

  • And the West, well the West, ain’t so wild.

    至於西方嘛,並不是那麼野蠻

  • And through understanding each other’s popular cultures,

    透過了解雙方的流行文化

  • we gain insight

    我們能夠真正看到

  • into each other’s hearts and true selves.

    對方的心和最真實的樣子

  • And for those of you who are just beginning that journey,

    對那些正要走向貫通東西方之路

  • to the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me.

    的人們,我今天誠摯的邀請你們跟我一起踏上旅程

  • and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on the West to East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.

    而身為一個旅途老手,我準備了一張混音帶要給各位,裡面收錄了十手我愛的歌

  • There, that’s a C-pop mixtape

    這是一張華流混音帶

  • that you can check out.

    聽聽看吧

  • I was gonna burn you all CDs.

    我本來想要替每個人都燒一張CD

  • but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal.

    但我的團隊很好心的提醒了我那會犯法

  • So...

    所以...

  • and because I'm a professional recording artist

    加上我是個專業專輯製作人

  • I shouldn't do that.

    我不該那樣做

  • But actually the links work out nicely because you get to see the music videos.

    但那些連結還是很有用的,你們可以透過它們看到 MV

  • as well on a lot of these songs.

    這些歌也是

  • These ten songs are songs that I love

    這十首是我很喜歡的歌

  • And ten different Chinese artists.

    而且來自十個不同的中國歌手

  • To start you off

    就從它們開始

  • on getting to know and love Chinese Pop.

    了解並接納中文流行歌吧

  • and I think these guys are awesome and I hope you do too.

    這些歌手都很棒,我希望你們也喜歡

  • And

    還有

  • I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus

    最後我想說,現在身處在牛津大學校園中

  • really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.

    真的讓我很懷念在威廉姆斯學院的日子

  • And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories

    當我回顧那四年,最令人難忘的

  • are spending time with my roommates Stefan Papaioannou and Jason Price.

    仍是跟我的室友 Stefan Papaioannou 和 Jason Price 相處的時光

  • In fact Jason is here in the audience today,

    事實上, Jason 現在就坐在觀眾席中

  • and made a special trip from London just to see me.

    他特地從倫敦過來看我

  • And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers

    我想我們剛開始確實很陌生

  • who didn’t know much about each other.

    也不了解對方

  • and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy.

    我們有時候確實會搶浴室,也有侵犯到對方隱私的時候

  • but I’ve always loved listening to Stefan’s stories

    但我一直都很喜歡聽 Stefan 講故事

  • about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what authentic Greek food really was.

    關於生長在希臘家庭還有他對道地希臘料理的看法

  • Or Jason's stories.

    還有 Jason 的故事

  • about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Stradivari.

    他想要學習製作小提琴,並生活在義大利的克雷莫那,就像知名小提琴製作師史特拉第瓦里一樣

  • And he did do that.

    他後來也真的辦到了

  • and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time.

    我絕不會忘記,在認識他多年後我用 Jason Price 親手做的小提琴來演奏

  • And how that felt

    也不會忘記當時的喜悅

  • They were always attentive and respectful when I told them what it was like for me growing up in a Chinese household with strict parents who made me study.

    他們總是會認真傾聽我訴說關於生長在中國家庭並且被嚴厲督促課業的故事

  • So we shared stories.

    我們分享彼此的故事

  • but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.

    但我們之間最強的連結在於,一起坐著聽音樂

  • And I really do see that as a model for East and West. So that's why I want to share Chinese music with you today.

    而我在那上面看到了東西方文化交流的雛形。這就是為什麼我今天想要跟大家分享中文歌曲

  • because it’s the best way I know how to create a lasting friendship that transcends all barriers and allow us to know each other.

    因為這是建立永恆的友誼、跨越任何阻礙,並讓我們了解彼此最好的方法

  • Truly, authentically and just as we are.

    去看見最真實的彼此

  • Thank you.

    謝謝大家

  • (applause)

Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishan, for helping to set this up.

謝謝 Plena ,謝謝 Jun ,謝謝珮姍幫我安排這一切

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