文档介绍：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, ina recent TEDTalk, “ the ability ofa culture to tell pelling 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