第一篇：王力力同志先进事迹材料

个人事迹

王力力同志，现任某市污水处理厂脱水机班班长，中共党员。他十年如一日战斗在污泥处理的第一线上，多次被评为优秀积极分子，是工人群体中的优秀典范。其专业技能在某厂厂中聪颖而出，在公司工会、团委于近期举行的“让理想在岗位闪光”劳动技能竞赛中，他也名列前茅。尽管先进性教育的集中学习已暂告段落，但党员的旗帜作用却在班组发扬开来，他经常牺牲个人休息时间加班加点排障抢修。在班组，有困难党员上，有担子党员挑，在职工中赢得了极佳的口碑。在他这面旗帜的指引下，班组人员积极向党组织靠拢，脱水机班也一度成为某厂厂党员比例最高的班组。

为实现建设“水清岸绿”的和谐某市这一目标而努力，王力力同志用他的实际行动为党员的先进性做了最好的诠释。

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第二篇：王力宏

奶奶许留芬是清华大学经济系毕业，著有《会计学原理》、《英汉汉英会计学辞典》等；舅公许倬云台大历史系、芝加哥大学博士毕业，是著名的史学家；然后，王爸爸是台大的，王妈妈是政大的，王力宏的哥哥是耶鲁的学士、芝加哥大学的硕士和博士，嫂嫂则是布朗大学的学士，芝加哥大学的硕士，两人现在在哈佛医学院工作，弟弟是麻省理工的硕士，弟媳是其 同学。王力宏自己则是毕业自威廉姆斯音乐学院。真正是学霸一家啊！

01 音乐是我的生命，谢谢大家肯定我的生命（金曲奖感言）

02 刚上中学时，我在纽约地下了解过很多不同的音乐风格，比如Hip-Hop、摇滚等，后来融入自己的风格中。这是优点也是缺点。（总结自己的音乐特性）03 这不是真正的竞争对手，我竞争的是要把华人的音乐更加国际化，对手应该是国外歌手或音乐人，反而觉得华人歌手都是我的同事们，不应该分散力量，我们都是自己人

04 现在流行R&B?不见得完全是，孙燕姿唱的不是R&B啊！好歌绝对可以突破任何市场，产生共鸣。（2000年评说“流行音乐”）

05 我作音乐的原则就是大胆，大方，开放。哪里有喜欢我音乐的人，我就去。我喜欢拿音乐和全世界的人沟通，我相信音乐的力量，能够改变人的生活，改变整个世界。

06 我不会后悔，因为我觉得人生只有一条路，你既然已经做了决定的选择，就好好的去做吧，任何事情都必须付出代价的，在我选择音乐，选择自由的同时，或许其实就已经付出了孤独的代价。

07 如果别人只看外形，对我来说，是悲哀。

08 我现在的生活很靠近地狱（2000年形容自己被媒体烦扰的生活）

09 你不能一直停留在过去的回忆之中，人要很诚恳的生活，才会激发更多的灵感。水在杯子里是一个杯，在壶里就是一个壶，可以千变万化，有时很温柔，又可以非常Powerful,所以我想做“水”。球是机遇，握在手中的球不能太重也不能太轻，否则发挥欠佳，也许，就因为我们不能每次都一击全中，所以更需要看准机会，该出发时就全力以赴，无需迟疑。这一盘打的不好，只要不放弃，一定还有下一盘的。只有寂寞才可以让人成长，我享受一个人的孤独。音乐人都是寂寞的，而且也是自虐的，太好的环境做不出好音乐。荣誉让我感到欣慰，而挫折才真正使我进步。看到他们在神父面前边宣誓边流泪，我真的很渴望自己的幸福快点到来！当一个人比当一个艺人更重要，我不否认我也很期待恋爱。但一段感情是要细水长流的是要努力去营造的，而不是理所当然。（对哥哥结婚的感想）爱情我希望一球全中，白头到老。16 我不太相信一见钟情，那实在是太危险了。我专一浪漫，但只会为我爱的人而浪漫。我尽量不谈感情和私生活，因为我尊重对方。当一个艺人最有趣、最有意义的就是：虽然音乐对大多数人来说是娱乐而非理想，但试想你的歌曲可能陪着当代孩子的成长，它可能会拥有足以跨越时代的力量。

第三篇：艾力先进事迹

2012年四月中旬，艾力正在值班室值班，他从值班室出来想去商店买包烟，一抬头，看到村子后面的山上，一条白色的水龙直冲下来。熟知山洪途径路线的艾力，爆发出年轻时的活力，迅速跑到洪水即将冲击的居民家中，帮助其迅速转移人员和贵重物品。一户哈族家中，男主人不在家，只有三个小孩和其母亲，艾力一手各抱一个，其母亲抱一个，不顾一切的冲到高地上，没过一会儿，浑浊的洪水夹杂巨大的石块，来势凶猛，转眼间房屋就被冲毁了。所幸艾力的反应迅速，没有出现人员伤亡。在艾力的指挥下，联防队员将洪水改道，流到水渠中，让肆无忌惮的洪水变得柔顺。

艾力作为则克台镇阿西勒村的治保主任，在洪水发生的一瞬间，就通知了镇政府及村干部联防队员，动员所有的应急力量，迅速投入到抗洪抢险的战斗中，为减少洪灾损失，做出了巨大贡献。

艾力在工作和生活中时刻保持高度的警惕性。在每周的牛马巴扎上，艾力在不经意间，发现有一个人卖的牛马特别便宜，而牛马看起来也没有什么病，艾力觉得这很不正常，然后又觉得对方的表情鬼鬼祟祟的，似乎在躲避和遮掩什么。艾力通知了镇派出所后，自己上去和怀疑对象交谈，看是否能在话语里发现什么线索。当民警来到后，通过盘查，嫌疑人交代他们是偷盗来自那拉提镇的牛马。在艾力的协助下，镇派出所破获了这个盗窃集团。

2012年6月底，在一起清查流动人口中，艾力走到一户人家中，看到大门锁起来了，正准备离开，忽然艾力透过门缝发现里面有人。艾力凑到门缝往里看，里面的情形让艾力大吃一惊。一个大约10岁的小女孩，稚嫩的小脸上全是青紫的伤痕，营养不良的瘦弱身体甚至站不起来，可能腿上也有伤。艾力通过周围的居民了解到：小女孩叫马艺文，被父母寄养在其姑姑家，其姑姑对马艺文极其凶残，每天为一点小事就殴打虐待，不给吃的，小孩每晚住在鸡圈里。艾力翻过墙去，当接触到马艺文恐惧而麻木的双眼，不管孩子身上的鸡粪等秽物，紧紧的抱着孩子，这么小的孩子啊，为什么会有那么残忍的姑姑，会这样折磨伤害她？面对马艺文腿部、胳膊青色和紫色等多处陈旧性伤痕，整个背部呈红色块状，虱蚊咬伤的痕迹。坚强的艾力忍不住流下泪来。

艾力抱着孩子从墙上翻出来，通知了镇上的政法干部后，大家一起将马艺文送到医院，为其彻底检查身体。在政府的关心下，为马艺文治疗了伤病，洗了澡，买了新衣服，联系到其在外地的父亲，将马文艺送到其父亲身边。

艾力从1997年就作为阿西勒村的治保主任默默奉献至今，一丝不苟的完成上级交付的任务，守护一方安宁。工作至今，艾力协助县公安局、镇派出所抓获各类犯罪人员20余人，多次得到县公安局、镇派出所的表彰。挽回经济损失约50万元。

艾力多次被评为县级“优秀治保主任”、“维稳先进个人”、“优秀普法工作者”“优秀民兵连长”等荣誉。

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第四篇：王力宏

Leehom Wang Oxford Union speech exception。。because knowing both of a coin I really think thatthere’s a love story willing to be told and willing to unfold。I’m willing to tointerpret the love story because I believe it is the story that will save us，will bring us together。

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。

（laughing。。）I’m going to try to back it up！

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said：“There are no languages required in a music world。That is the power of music and that’s the power of the

heart。Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the

culture and civilizations of the other people。In this era ofinstability and intolerance we need to promote better understanding through the power of music。”

The UN Secretary General thinks we need more music，and I think he’s right。

Music and arts have always played the key role in my life，in building relationships，replacing what once was ignorance fearing of hatred with acceptance，friendship and even love。

So I have strong case for growing in music between cultures because it happened to me earlier in life。

I was born and raised up in New York，barely spoke a word of Chinese。I didn’t know the difference between Taiwan and Thailand。

（laughing。。）

I was American as。。until one day on a third grade playground，the inevitable finally happened。I got teased for being Chinese。

Every kid just teased for making fun on the playground，but this was fundamentally different and I knew it right then and there。This kid，let’s call him Brayan the Cowboy。。

He started making fun for me，saying“Chinese，Japanese,Dirty kneess,Look at these!”

(laughing…)

The kids started laughing at me and it hurts!

I can still remember how I can felt，I felt shamed，I felt barrased，but I laughted along with them，with everybody。I didn’t know what else to do。I was like having out-body experience，as if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other American kids because I was one of them。

Right？Wrong！On many levels。

And I was facing first but definitely not the last time the harsh reality that I was minority。

In Rochester，which in those ages Asian population was about 1%。And I was confused。I wanted to punch Bryan，I wanted to hurt him for hunting me in that situation。But he was masculine，stronger than me and he will kick my butt and he would do that so I just took it in。And I didn’t tell anyone with these feelings and I just held them in and let them repressed.Those feelings trough surface in a strangely therapeutically for me through music。

It was no coincident that around that time I started paly violion，guitar and drums，I soon discovered that playing music or singing，other kids would，for a brief moment，forget about my race of colour and they be able to see who truly I am，as a human being who’s emotional spiritual curious about the world and has a need for love just like everyone else。

And by the sixth grade，guess who asked me if I could join him for his band。

（Bryan）Bryan！

I said yes and that’s Bryan and me together，from the elementary school rock band called“Nirvana”

（laughing）

I’m not kidding，I was a rock band called“Nirvana”before Kurt Cobain’s band。So when Nirvana came out，Bryan and I were like:Hey，he’s stealing our name!

What really attracted to me is that music at this young age and still I love about it is that it breakes down the walls between us and show us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different。

Then in high school，I learnt that music was not just about connecting with others，like Bryan and I were connected through music。It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiraton。

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

Sam swept the floors and cleaned the bathroom of our school for twenty years。

He never talked to the kids and the kids never talked to Sam。

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

I was taken to the back and I was thingking;why Sam the janitor would approaching me?

He gave me this letter that I was draw off in a shaky hand and written in all capitals，and I read it:

In all my years of working as a janitor at Sutherland，you are the first Asian boy who plays the rock，I will bring my six-year-old daughter to watch you perform because I wanted her to see the Asian communities and inspire her。

第五篇：王力宏演讲

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 week.I’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 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 of East and West.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.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 TEDTalk, “the ability of a culture to tell a compelling story and influence others to fall in love with them”.I like that definition.But I want to put it in collegiate 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 stories.I know a lot of students here in Oxford have their own separate bedrooms.But when I was a freshman at Williams College [crowd interjects] You’re kidding!Woohoo!Well I had a roommate.And he was that roommate.Let’s just call him Frank.So Frank was my roommate and Frank liked nothing more than to smoke weed.[laughter] And he did it every day.And Frank had a 2-foot long bong under his bed that was constantly being fired up.For those Chinese speakers in the audience, Frank would 火力全开 on that bong.So 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 inhale.Every single day.Second hand.And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom, I mysteriously end up being late for class.I 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 had.See, Frank, he didn’t make it to second year.And I got two new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of friends.So 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 latter.I’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive for.Now, let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim complex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than US.Bloomberg 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 dangerous.Very dangerous.And what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for Westerners.The most common 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 on.So are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little help.And 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 decisions.China’s not just those headlines.The burgeoning economy with unique politics.It 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 two.And [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 unfold.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.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, and I’m going to try and back it up.Now, the UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical world.That is the power of music.That is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other people.And in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music.The UN Sec-Gen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is right.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.So I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my life.I was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of Chinese.I didn'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 Chinese.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.So 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 embarrassed.But I laughed along with everyone.And I didn't know what else to do.It was like having an out of body experience.As if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many levels.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%.And I was confused.I wanted to punch Brian.I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it in.I didn't tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them fester.And those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the drums.And I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone else.And by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? Brian.And I said yes.And that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… Nirvana.I’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain'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 music.It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.Sam [Nguyen?] was my high school janitor.He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.Sam scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty years.He never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to Sam.But 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 role.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.And that letter just floored me.I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.That was the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, it helped two kids who were initially enemies to become friends, but with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.It was an even higher level;it influenced others I didn’t even know, in ways I could never imagine.I can’t tell you how grateful I am to Sam to this day, he really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose, 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.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.Then let’s take another look at this state of union, the East and West union, with this soft power bias.How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? Sure.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.What about [x], well, [inaudible exchange with an audience member], yeah, and movies, well there was Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon], that was 13 years ago.Well, I think there’s a bit of an imbalance here.It’s called “soft power deficit”, that is to say the West influences the East more than vice versa.Forgive me for using “East” and “West” kinda loosely, it’s a lot easier to say than “English-speaking… language” or “Asian-speaking… language/Chinese”, I’m making generalisation and I hope you can go with me on this.And it’s just intrinsically a problem, this imbalance in pop culture influence.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? And that this exchange needs to have a healthy balance? And how do we address this? As an ambassador for Chinese pop music and movies, I have to ask myself a question: Why does this deficit exist? Is it because Chinese music just [is lame?].Do you want me to answer that? [laughter] Yeah I think I see some of you are like, stop complaining and write a hit song!Psy did it!But there’s truth in that.The argument being that, the content that we’ve created just isn’t as internationally competitive.But why shouldn’t it?

Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example.Korean is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking.Chinese pop on the other hand can just stay domestic, tour all over China, stick in territories and comfortably sustain.So when you’re that big and powerful, with over 160 cities in China with a million or more people, you tend to kinda turn inward and be complacent.So this certainly can be made an argument made for Chinese pop not being marketed with international sensibilities, but the other side of the argument I think is more interesting and thought provoking and even more true, is that Western ears aren’t familiar with and therefore don’t really understand how to appreciate Chinese music.Ouch!

The reason I think that the argument holds water though is because that’s exactly what I went through, so I happen to know a thing or two about learning to appreciate Chinese pop as a Westerner.'Cos I was 17 years old when I went from being an Asian kid in America to being an American kid in Asia, and the entire paradigm suddenly got flipped on its head.I grew up 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 lame.I don’t like it!” I thought it was cheesy, production value was low, and the singers couldn’t belt like Axl Rose or Mariah Carey.But then one day, I went to my first Chinese pop concert, and it was Harlem Yu performing at the Taipei Music Centre, and as he performed, I looked around the audience and I saw their faces and the looks in their eyes and their response to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay.It wasn’t that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate it and to hear it in the right way.The crowd, they would sing along and be totally immerse in his music, and I thought that it was significant, that I was missing the point and from now on, I was going to somehow learn how to get it, I was gonna learn how to hear with both ears, and I deconstructed and analysed 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, and it took me a long time and I am still learning 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.And I think this happens to everyone, really, who is on the outside looking in.It always looks strange if you looked at things from your perspective, you’re always going to think that these people are weirdos, what’s wrong with them, why are they listening to these stuff? And I’m saying that you can make the effort [x], it can be done, and I’m living proof of that.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 on the first listen.So what else can we do to reduce this imbalance in our popular cultures? Well, maybe we could talk a lot, tour more outside of China? But seriously, actually I think the tides have already started to change, very slowly, very cautiously, almost calculatedly.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, Iron Man 3, Transformers, [53?][laughter], Resident Evil, really it’s beginning to be kinda like a world pop, 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, and there’s like this W-pop that’s kinda starting to emerge.It’s world pop, and I love that idea.It’s not World Music.There used to be section in HMV called World Music, and I was like Ethnomusicology class in college.But world pop is more about breaking and tearing down age-old stereotypes, the artificial confines that have kept us apart for way too long.It’s a melting pot, and it’s mosaic, that even if we looked up close, we’d still see the colours and flavours of each culture in detail.And where can we go to listen to world pop? I don’t think there’s a world pop station or magazine, unfortunately, there are none--there should be.There is the internet, and YouTube has proven to be a driving force for world pop.Britain’s Got Talent made Susan Boyle the hottest act in the world, and she achieved that not through the record labels or the networks, but through grassroots sharing.Gangnam Style is another great world pop, and how that just took over became huge worldwide world pop phenomenon.So world pop as it suggests is a worldwide pop culture is something that can be shared by all of us and gives us a lot of common ground.So today, what’s my call of action? I’ve already proven multicultural exchange between the East and West, I think I have made that clear, but how? I think… you can all become pop singers, really, I think that’s the [x], unless that’s what you really want to.My call of action is this: build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West.Value this relationship and take ownership of it.Don’t come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan and only hang out with other Chinese students.Why would you do that? You could do that in [x] or Nanjing or wherever you came from.Don’t buy into the headlines or the stereotypes or in the hypernationalism.Think for yourselves, and this goes for the East and the West, both.Get to know one another and think for yourselves and don’t believe the hype.For just a moment, if we could just disregard the governments and what the media are saying, just for the sake of the argument, with our own tools of critical thinking, can we build relationships that actually see one another as inpidual human beings and not faces or members of a particular ethnicity or nationality? Of course we can do that.And that’s the goal and dream, I think of the romantic artists and the musicians, I think it’s always been there.And that’s what I reach for, and that makes music so powerful and so true, that breaks down instantly and disintegrates all the artificial barriers that we create between each other, government, nationality, black, brown, yellow, white, whatever colour you are, and shows each other our hearts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and it turns out in end that the East isn’t that far after all, and the west, well the west, ain’t so white.And through understanding each other’s popular cultures, we gain insight into each other’s heart and true selves.And for those of you who are just beginning that journey, the West and East, I want to invite you today on this amazing journey with me, and I, as an experienced traveller on this road, on this West and East road, I’ve prepared a mixtape for all of you today, of ten songs that I love.There, that’s a C-pop mixtape that you can check out.I was gonna bring you all CDs but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal, that as a professional recording artist, I shouldn’t do that.But I still think that it works out nicely because you get to see the music videos as well on a lot of these songs.These ten songs are songs that I love and ten different Chinese artists to start you off on getting to know and love Chinese pop and I think these guys are awesome.I just want to wrap up by saying that being here on the Oxford campus really makes me nostalgic for my days at Williams.And when I look back on those four years, some of my fondest memories are spending time with my roommates Stephan Papiano and Jason Price.In fact Jason is here in the audience today, and made a special trip from London just to see me.And I suppose in the beginning we were strangers, we didn’t know much about each other, and sometimes we did compete for the shower and there were times we did intrude on each other's privacy, but I’ve always loved listening to Stephan’s stories about growing up in a Greek family and his opinions about what Greek food really was.Or Jason’s stories, about wanting to make violins and to live in Cremona, Italy like Antonio Strapari and he did do that, and I will never forget many years later when I played a Jason Price handmade violin for the first time, and how that felt.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 always made me study.So we shared stories, but the strongest bonds between us were formed just sitting around and listening to music together.And I really do see that as a model for East and West.So I really want to share Chinese music with you today 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 truly, authentically and just as we are.