thank you I’m so honored to be here and
last year I visited my you actually in
New York and yesterday our lovely Frank
gave me a tour around here and I was
amazed I was amazed by the beautiful
beauty and classrooms and the amazing
activities in the energetic students and
most of all I was especially amazed by
the striking resemblance between NYU and
in my you Shanghai that is there’s no
campus I’m just kidding you got great
environment you got great buildings so
today’s topic is about encounter I think
encounter is not just a fancy way to say
meet there’s something more to it I
think it contains the element of
surprise which can really change your
life and it also contains the word
counter which means against so it can be
something intimidating it can be
something that confronts you it can be
something like your enemy adverse Alvar
Sariel so the question is have you got
what it takes to tackle with these
encounters to seize the moment to grab
this chance of your life and I’m going
to share with you some of my encounters
very important opportunities that I
seized over the past few years I like to
call them fortuitous encounters
okay so first of all I want to talk
about my major my major in college I
want to ask you a question first do you
know what PCM stands for
it’s okay it doesn’t matter because most
of the people tell either TCM actually
stands for traditional Chinese medicine
or in Chinese to me that was my major in
college May that was like a shock to a
lot of people so that’s quite a
difference between why like studied at
that time and what I’m trying to I’m
doing right now so and I want to tell
you a very interesting story the first
day of my college life when we get into
like it the auditorium the hall or
something our principal said to us
welcome everybody
congratulations we are you have entered
this College this great College is one
of the top five
TCM colleges in China I was so excited
and to you later I found out there are
only five TCM colleges in China so
that’s a very small school in a very
small town if I’m going to take you on a
tour around my school you will take
probably only one or two minutes around
the campus but we still have a canvas
just joking it’s a very small town in
the very small college but the problem
is not small the problem is we were very
very extremely conservative think about
that you know our best pastime our
favorite pastime is listening to Peking
Opera and drinking drinking herbal teas
as TCM students so we are so closed
minded at a time me too you know
over 90 percent of my schoolmates they
had or they reached the same height of
English abilities or English as Purdy’s
as 90 percent of Chinese population
which is to be able to fluently author
these falling words in the exact order
how are you fine thank you and you and
fine too
I was the same I was no better than they
were my English level was terrible at
that time so you know we had a joke at
that time because of the surrounding the
conservative surrounding that if you are
good at English actually you can mean it
treason against your own country well
use that that was a joke but there’s
some truth to it
so we use that to like him an excuse for
us to not really study English so when I
announced that I was going to to take
the examination of GRE and tofo and SAT
people were like what what is GRE and
they didn’t know it let alone understand
it so the support I got from my friends
and classmates was like they they said
to me are you crazy
are you out of mind so that was huge
pressure on me I was how I was maybe
your age I was suffer more a student at
a time
but I could I admitted that I was crazy
I slept for only four hours every day
for half a year six months more than six
months and part of the reason is try to
prove myself and another part of the
reason is that the registration fee is
non-refundable
that’s like 1500 RMB at that time that
was 15 years ago think about that that
was three months of lunch money for me
so I had to make it work and yet I was
crazy but they didn’t know that I was
even crazier than they thought
my goal was never to gasps great like a
marks or scores in injury examination
might go was to be a great GRE teacher
so several months later I got
extraordinary scores in examination 9/10
I became one of the biggest names one of
the most well-known names on China’s
biggest GRE forum at that time I was a
sophomore student
I began teaching people about
vocabularies in GRE and writing and
reading all this kind of stuff there was
a moment of like realization were a
perfectly moment for me that was when at
least students in China the best
students in China from Peking University
written high university kept chasing me
and asking me for help with Jerry’s
examination like a calorie or reading or
writing that moment I realized I made it
I changed my life a little bit it’s not
a big deal for you guys you are in my
you student right I was like invincible
sorry invisible boy and nobody from
nowhere a very small college a weird
major a very small town and the Internet
it was not as huge as it is right now
so I got recognition not only outside my
my my major my school but it’s really
world wide recognition because we have a
lot of students applying to four
American schools and all around the
world Chinese student so that was the
first time I know yeah I can’t change my
life a little bit by taking the chances
by seize the moment so that was the
first encounter and 15 years ago
and there’s a lot of people who are
applying or who are preparing applying
for foreign schools and preparing for
the examinations I started watching TV
shows American TV shows the reason for
that was similar to to you guys were to
everybody else and is to improve my
listening ability or improve my my
English ability well no that is not true
is this an excuse you give your like
your friends or parents who are teachers
I’m not fooling around I’m not just
killing time I’m trying to learn
something here but do you know the
phrase Netflix and chill yeah
some of you do okay if you don’t know
just as who laughs like two seconds ago
so you know your focus your attention is
not really on the show it’s on something
else but the difference between me and
everybody else is that we all say it you
all say it I really did it
I did learn a lot from American TV shows
and how because I wash them I bench wash
them I rewatched them and I even
dissected them I try to get their true
meaning figure out the true meaning
behind every joke every pond every inner
handle out the nuke and cranny of the
show of the dialogue for example if I
say this word blow was the first thing
that comes into your mind
Oh give you a little time to to think
about that
so that and but in order to find out the
meaning behind the every like jokes or
every joke or pawn you have to get a
really good translation or subtitle I
couldn’t do that at that time the
subtitles for TV shows were really mess
up we’re terrible I’ll give you one
example do you know the TV show Breaking
Bad Breaking Bad Jesse Pinkman and what
a white there’s a scene between Jesse’s
girlfriend and what a white whatever I
wanted to get into the house but Jesse’s
girlfriend was like no he doesn’t want
you in you cannot get in period in a
Chinese subtitle says something like you
cannot get in because I am on my period
you know the difference in a difference
so but when I pointed out these kind of
problems people get upset especially
online especially in China we’ll say
something is wrong
we’re pointing out the problem with
something people will usually say you
can you up you know that actually means
oh you are so smart you’re such a smart
ass you see something it’s not good
enough for you ten why don’t you do it
yourself to which I replied all right
okay I’ll do it
then I joined the fansub team as a
out of fans for American TV shows who do
the sub subtitle is translated subtitles
subtitles for the TV shows and within
like one or two years I became famous in
Dicer co2 because 90% of the maybe 95%
of the TV show the subtitles we see our
base on the English transcripts without
the english transcript these people
cannot do their work but i can do that i
can just watch the video listen to the
audio and can translate that and i
thought at that time that was not how in
challenging enough then I did something
I went to even further I transcribed
this shows I write down every word each
and every word verbatim and then I found
out that maybe at that time I realized
maybe I was not obsessed with TV shows
but I was obsessed with challenges so I
try to find the next bigger challenge
for me that was a time when I
encountered American late-night talk
shows but at first I couldn’t understand
the word they are saying see the
audience you’re laughing like ha ha ha
ha I was like what because of the
difference not only in your language
because they are talking very fast but
the current affairs political like
argument and celebrity stuff you had to
accumulate a huge amount of background
information to understand artichokes in
the you know TV in the late-night talk
shows so again it took me like a year to
understand them and then I found out
that to translate them into Chinese is
even a bigger challenge for me it’s
almost impossible like I just said
period and period that was the easy one
so how can you translate like Jon
Stewart the former House of The Daily
Show he’s choked about Barack Obama or
Bruce jr. into Chinese and without a lot
of background information and the nose
and all these are the things you put on
your screen and you can make people
understand that immediately that was my
job and after a while I became the first
translator of American like Italy night
TV shows late-night talk shows and
stand-up specials in China Hey
and again I try to ask myself yeah this
is something that no I has done before I
tried it anyway I did it anyway and then
I made it but what I was kind to i
became well-known in two small circles
the first one is about GRE forum and the
second one is fan sub-team the sewers
worlds are based on forums PBS there was
a long time ago and but I was asking
myself this question can you start again
can you try something new what is the
next thing you wanted to luckily Twitter
ran out Twitter came out and Sina Weibo
copied the crap out of Twitter so I got
his chance to try myself again I started
to post videos I translated mostly about
Lena talk shows and stand-up comedians
on Weibo that was something that nobody
had ever seen before
a lot of people like the they were
really against these kind of things they
think they are they’re bad they are
really vulgar they are against the value
of Chinese people so people didn’t like
it in the beginning and when I started
my account I have only five I have only
five followers so let’s talk about
translation a little bit translation in
my opinion is all about preaching over
the gap between two languages or two
nations or two countries knocking down
the like cultural obstacle standing
between us and the knowledge from the
outside world years ago we caught that
language barrier beret now occurred at
the Great Firewall
right so basically technically us.we
translators are actually human VPNs or
human proxies to bring knowledge across
the Great Firewall into our country so
let’s go back to this social media thing
it took me a long time it to me like is
six months to making in the GRE world it
took me like two years to make it in
defense sub world where it’s filming
seven years I posted at least one video
every day for seven years thousands of
days and thousands of videos later the
number of my followers grew from five to
nearly nine million look at that you can
see the view you can see the retweet or
repost Reap Weibo here the number is
huge so and then at that time what is
more interesting or more satisfying for
me it’s not about a number of my
followers it’s the fact that everybody
in China right now know what American TV
sorry American talk show is there’s a
lot of people most of them are my
friends are doing stand-up in Chinese
were in English in Shanghai in Beijing
in change in Guangzhou right now they
have this set up clubs and there how
these TV programs we’re online programs
a variety shows like a roast like you’re
a stand-up comedian meeting or something
so that is what I’ve been dreaming of so
right now my dream come true so part of
that is my contribution to promote to
spread to convince people this is
something very interesting so that is
really satisfying for me and then again
I became what you call one home internet
or social media influencer but is that
enough for me
I asked me myself this question what if
all the social media go away
what else can you do if you have to
start from scratch again what can you do
so two years ago was three
ago I started to do something else I
became a reporter or interviewer we have
another speaker today Brian but I didn’t
see him here I would like to give a
shout out to Marvel and Disney it was
all started with a mouse so like him
more than two years ago I started to
collaborate and work with Disney and
Pixar and Marvel Lucasfilm I’ve been to
a lot of like coming home ish events in
the United States in Europe and in China
and got a chance to interview dozens of
famous directors and very brilliant
actors and actresses I will not bore you
with the details I’m going to bore you
with the names so David Beckham george
smoot is actually from Disney like a
John Lasseter you know who ain’t and
Nolan really Scott JJ Abrams Bryan
Singer okay and some actor is Johnny
Depp
Benedict Cumberbatch Tom healers Michael
Fassbender Eddie Redmayne Hugh Jackman
dozens of people so what is that I can
do and other reporters can’t is that I
can make all these in interviewees if
you relaxed and comfortable within one
minute why because we only got like five
word a menace
you have to ask them a lot of questions
you have to get the answer that was
unlike the answer he gave like to maybe
hundreds of different media before and
you don’t only help maybe one minute to
make acquaintance to make them feel that
you are friendly it made them trust you
so you only have one minute to do that I
can do that with you one minute even
with someone some big figure like Nolan
so that’s uh that’s my thing and after
two years this one it was quicker after
two years I became not one interviewer I
become the interviewer for all the
studios when they are promoting their
film Hollywood blockbusters in China
they will come to me to do the
interaction to have all kinds of
activities with the talents and that is
not even like my past achievement or
something time the most proud of this is
something and that the host just
mentioned that before after two years of
that I really traveled a lot around the
world and at the same time when I was
interviewing them I also talked about
Chinese culture and the things it
matters to me the most so I became one
of 50 people who influenced the
relationship between US and China so
what a coincidence
NYU Shanghai America China so I think in
the future I can see your name on this
list right you are at the frontier I try
very hard to me 15 years to to reach
here but for you you’re already here
you just need to work very hard maybe
from like 15 years from now I can see
you names on this list
I love this magazine actually I’m a
subscriber to this magazine foreign
policy is a great magazine in the United
States you can see on the squeeze on
with some big names like Mark Zuckerberg
Bob Iger Matt Damon okay so and to sum
it all up I want to say every encounter
is an opportunity as my life experience
show you just show you and usually
people like to quote some inspiring
words or phrases like carpe diem means
to seize the day which sounds a lot of
classier because he’s in Latin I would
not do that instead okay with this quote
I don’t know how to pronounce that I’ll
try but I will try approve it
el momento actually it means seize the
moment that’s different because it’s not
in Latin you see in Spanish this is what
I’m trying to say
but you ask this question how because
it’s counter as against you is something
confronts you it can be intimidating
sometimes these opportunities can be you
enemies
how can you tackle them hang how can you
seize the moment
I have three other wisest for you the
first one is be prepared
that’s another cliche right but what I
mean is I encourage you to soak up all
the information and skills and the
things seemingly useless right now that
you can get your hands on you have the
perfect opportunity here yes yesterday
on my tour around your building
I saw amazing programs amazing courses
and you have great and brilliant
professors maybe the best faculty in the
world so you have this chance to get
your hands on all different kinds of
knowledge you know when I was in in high
school my mom liked to cut is gonna cut
a knowledge garbage knowledge why
because according to her definition
everything outside at the your school or
your school book or a textbook we are
reading a novel
ass garbage book actually for me it is
not TCM traditional Chinese medicine
knowledge to help me to to get where I
am today is all is like useless or
garbage knowledge ease to get me here so
get everything you can get your hands on
so be prepared to MPU versatile the
second thing is dream big
Tom Harlan sat in the film Inception
that you mustn’t be afraid to dream a
little bigger darling
I think by that I mean don’t aim for the
moon
aim for the Sun because 15 years ago I
couldn’t believe I couldn’t imagine that
I could make the lease of fifty people
who influenced China America
relationship so I cannot imagine that so
trim big even if you’re you fail you’ll
be remember you know in Greek mythology
there’s someone called a career
he had a Waxwing you tried to fly to the
Sun but he failed and fell to the ground
but we still remember him as the first
guy in history first person in history
who tried to reach the Sun but maybe you
know it’s all singles a is the shopping
day maybe he got his knockoff wins on
tawa or something that’s not the point
just dream big the third thing is make
it or break it
give it all you got so half manager will
not work for me
if I try to do something if I try to
achieve something I will be relentless
you want to sleep you can’t always sleep
later right if you want to get easy and
that’s true that’s not like a joke not
even a joke because the past year are
the years in college that’s that’s
that’s what I think you got a bachelor
resources right now you got that bass
like mammary you got a pass like a
physical condition right now do the
things you wanted to and maybe you will
regret later but at least you can try
and last I want to give you a little tip
because a lot of people who ask me well
I always like to be a woman like
influencer yes like good sides and bad
sides I want to talk about passe
you know chose internet shows social
media chose a lot of people are trying
to like a hack oh you try to start stir
up some like fight or argument
just ignore them just ignore them don’t
feed them the attention they are
desperately seeking that’s the attention
that feeds them to seek Norden don’t
answer to them there are comments or a
primary message just like a blacklist em
so in the end I want to emphasize this
resemblance what I’m trying to do is to
make the things from another like a
culture accessible to the common Chinese
like viewers or Chinese people and you
are at this crossroad also and you are
at the frontier of this crossroad the
East and the West
United States in China I really hope you
can make it you have a greater much
greater starting point and I had 13
years ago so 15 years ago my dream was
to be a teacher and then 12 years ago I
tried I try to be like I really made it
to be a teacher and then I try to do
something in the subtitle world and like
seven years ago I started to be a woman
and then two years ago I try to be an
interviewer I made it I think you can
make something in a bigger so that’s my
best wishes to all your guys here thank
you for your time
last year I visited my you actually in
New York and yesterday our lovely Frank
gave me a tour around here and I was
amazed I was amazed by the beautiful
beauty and classrooms and the amazing
activities in the energetic students and
most of all I was especially amazed by
the striking resemblance between NYU and
in my you Shanghai that is there’s no
campus I’m just kidding you got great
environment you got great buildings so
today’s topic is about encounter I think
encounter is not just a fancy way to say
meet there’s something more to it I
think it contains the element of
surprise which can really change your
life and it also contains the word
counter which means against so it can be
something intimidating it can be
something that confronts you it can be
something like your enemy adverse Alvar
Sariel so the question is have you got
what it takes to tackle with these
encounters to seize the moment to grab
this chance of your life and I’m going
to share with you some of my encounters
very important opportunities that I
seized over the past few years I like to
call them fortuitous encounters
okay so first of all I want to talk
about my major my major in college I
want to ask you a question first do you
know what PCM stands for
it’s okay it doesn’t matter because most
of the people tell either TCM actually
stands for traditional Chinese medicine
or in Chinese to me that was my major in
college May that was like a shock to a
lot of people so that’s quite a
difference between why like studied at
that time and what I’m trying to I’m
doing right now so and I want to tell
you a very interesting story the first
day of my college life when we get into
like it the auditorium the hall or
something our principal said to us
welcome everybody
congratulations we are you have entered
this College this great College is one
of the top five
TCM colleges in China I was so excited
and to you later I found out there are
only five TCM colleges in China so
that’s a very small school in a very
small town if I’m going to take you on a
tour around my school you will take
probably only one or two minutes around
the campus but we still have a canvas
just joking it’s a very small town in
the very small college but the problem
is not small the problem is we were very
very extremely conservative think about
that you know our best pastime our
favorite pastime is listening to Peking
Opera and drinking drinking herbal teas
as TCM students so we are so closed
minded at a time me too you know
over 90 percent of my schoolmates they
had or they reached the same height of
English abilities or English as Purdy’s
as 90 percent of Chinese population
which is to be able to fluently author
these falling words in the exact order
how are you fine thank you and you and
fine too
I was the same I was no better than they
were my English level was terrible at
that time so you know we had a joke at
that time because of the surrounding the
conservative surrounding that if you are
good at English actually you can mean it
treason against your own country well
use that that was a joke but there’s
some truth to it
so we use that to like him an excuse for
us to not really study English so when I
announced that I was going to to take
the examination of GRE and tofo and SAT
people were like what what is GRE and
they didn’t know it let alone understand
it so the support I got from my friends
and classmates was like they they said
to me are you crazy
are you out of mind so that was huge
pressure on me I was how I was maybe
your age I was suffer more a student at
a time
but I could I admitted that I was crazy
I slept for only four hours every day
for half a year six months more than six
months and part of the reason is try to
prove myself and another part of the
reason is that the registration fee is
non-refundable
that’s like 1500 RMB at that time that
was 15 years ago think about that that
was three months of lunch money for me
so I had to make it work and yet I was
crazy but they didn’t know that I was
even crazier than they thought
my goal was never to gasps great like a
marks or scores in injury examination
might go was to be a great GRE teacher
so several months later I got
extraordinary scores in examination 9/10
I became one of the biggest names one of
the most well-known names on China’s
biggest GRE forum at that time I was a
sophomore student
I began teaching people about
vocabularies in GRE and writing and
reading all this kind of stuff there was
a moment of like realization were a
perfectly moment for me that was when at
least students in China the best
students in China from Peking University
written high university kept chasing me
and asking me for help with Jerry’s
examination like a calorie or reading or
writing that moment I realized I made it
I changed my life a little bit it’s not
a big deal for you guys you are in my
you student right I was like invincible
sorry invisible boy and nobody from
nowhere a very small college a weird
major a very small town and the Internet
it was not as huge as it is right now
so I got recognition not only outside my
my my major my school but it’s really
world wide recognition because we have a
lot of students applying to four
American schools and all around the
world Chinese student so that was the
first time I know yeah I can’t change my
life a little bit by taking the chances
by seize the moment so that was the
first encounter and 15 years ago
and there’s a lot of people who are
applying or who are preparing applying
for foreign schools and preparing for
the examinations I started watching TV
shows American TV shows the reason for
that was similar to to you guys were to
everybody else and is to improve my
listening ability or improve my my
English ability well no that is not true
is this an excuse you give your like
your friends or parents who are teachers
I’m not fooling around I’m not just
killing time I’m trying to learn
something here but do you know the
phrase Netflix and chill yeah
some of you do okay if you don’t know
just as who laughs like two seconds ago
so you know your focus your attention is
not really on the show it’s on something
else but the difference between me and
everybody else is that we all say it you
all say it I really did it
I did learn a lot from American TV shows
and how because I wash them I bench wash
them I rewatched them and I even
dissected them I try to get their true
meaning figure out the true meaning
behind every joke every pond every inner
handle out the nuke and cranny of the
show of the dialogue for example if I
say this word blow was the first thing
that comes into your mind
Oh give you a little time to to think
about that
so that and but in order to find out the
meaning behind the every like jokes or
every joke or pawn you have to get a
really good translation or subtitle I
couldn’t do that at that time the
subtitles for TV shows were really mess
up we’re terrible I’ll give you one
example do you know the TV show Breaking
Bad Breaking Bad Jesse Pinkman and what
a white there’s a scene between Jesse’s
girlfriend and what a white whatever I
wanted to get into the house but Jesse’s
girlfriend was like no he doesn’t want
you in you cannot get in period in a
Chinese subtitle says something like you
cannot get in because I am on my period
you know the difference in a difference
so but when I pointed out these kind of
problems people get upset especially
online especially in China we’ll say
something is wrong
we’re pointing out the problem with
something people will usually say you
can you up you know that actually means
oh you are so smart you’re such a smart
ass you see something it’s not good
enough for you ten why don’t you do it
yourself to which I replied all right
okay I’ll do it
then I joined the fansub team as a
out of fans for American TV shows who do
the sub subtitle is translated subtitles
subtitles for the TV shows and within
like one or two years I became famous in
Dicer co2 because 90% of the maybe 95%
of the TV show the subtitles we see our
base on the English transcripts without
the english transcript these people
cannot do their work but i can do that i
can just watch the video listen to the
audio and can translate that and i
thought at that time that was not how in
challenging enough then I did something
I went to even further I transcribed
this shows I write down every word each
and every word verbatim and then I found
out that maybe at that time I realized
maybe I was not obsessed with TV shows
but I was obsessed with challenges so I
try to find the next bigger challenge
for me that was a time when I
encountered American late-night talk
shows but at first I couldn’t understand
the word they are saying see the
audience you’re laughing like ha ha ha
ha I was like what because of the
difference not only in your language
because they are talking very fast but
the current affairs political like
argument and celebrity stuff you had to
accumulate a huge amount of background
information to understand artichokes in
the you know TV in the late-night talk
shows so again it took me like a year to
understand them and then I found out
that to translate them into Chinese is
even a bigger challenge for me it’s
almost impossible like I just said
period and period that was the easy one
so how can you translate like Jon
Stewart the former House of The Daily
Show he’s choked about Barack Obama or
Bruce jr. into Chinese and without a lot
of background information and the nose
and all these are the things you put on
your screen and you can make people
understand that immediately that was my
job and after a while I became the first
translator of American like Italy night
TV shows late-night talk shows and
stand-up specials in China Hey
and again I try to ask myself yeah this
is something that no I has done before I
tried it anyway I did it anyway and then
I made it but what I was kind to i
became well-known in two small circles
the first one is about GRE forum and the
second one is fan sub-team the sewers
worlds are based on forums PBS there was
a long time ago and but I was asking
myself this question can you start again
can you try something new what is the
next thing you wanted to luckily Twitter
ran out Twitter came out and Sina Weibo
copied the crap out of Twitter so I got
his chance to try myself again I started
to post videos I translated mostly about
Lena talk shows and stand-up comedians
on Weibo that was something that nobody
had ever seen before
a lot of people like the they were
really against these kind of things they
think they are they’re bad they are
really vulgar they are against the value
of Chinese people so people didn’t like
it in the beginning and when I started
my account I have only five I have only
five followers so let’s talk about
translation a little bit translation in
my opinion is all about preaching over
the gap between two languages or two
nations or two countries knocking down
the like cultural obstacle standing
between us and the knowledge from the
outside world years ago we caught that
language barrier beret now occurred at
the Great Firewall
right so basically technically us.we
translators are actually human VPNs or
human proxies to bring knowledge across
the Great Firewall into our country so
let’s go back to this social media thing
it took me a long time it to me like is
six months to making in the GRE world it
took me like two years to make it in
defense sub world where it’s filming
seven years I posted at least one video
every day for seven years thousands of
days and thousands of videos later the
number of my followers grew from five to
nearly nine million look at that you can
see the view you can see the retweet or
repost Reap Weibo here the number is
huge so and then at that time what is
more interesting or more satisfying for
me it’s not about a number of my
followers it’s the fact that everybody
in China right now know what American TV
sorry American talk show is there’s a
lot of people most of them are my
friends are doing stand-up in Chinese
were in English in Shanghai in Beijing
in change in Guangzhou right now they
have this set up clubs and there how
these TV programs we’re online programs
a variety shows like a roast like you’re
a stand-up comedian meeting or something
so that is what I’ve been dreaming of so
right now my dream come true so part of
that is my contribution to promote to
spread to convince people this is
something very interesting so that is
really satisfying for me and then again
I became what you call one home internet
or social media influencer but is that
enough for me
I asked me myself this question what if
all the social media go away
what else can you do if you have to
start from scratch again what can you do
so two years ago was three
ago I started to do something else I
became a reporter or interviewer we have
another speaker today Brian but I didn’t
see him here I would like to give a
shout out to Marvel and Disney it was
all started with a mouse so like him
more than two years ago I started to
collaborate and work with Disney and
Pixar and Marvel Lucasfilm I’ve been to
a lot of like coming home ish events in
the United States in Europe and in China
and got a chance to interview dozens of
famous directors and very brilliant
actors and actresses I will not bore you
with the details I’m going to bore you
with the names so David Beckham george
smoot is actually from Disney like a
John Lasseter you know who ain’t and
Nolan really Scott JJ Abrams Bryan
Singer okay and some actor is Johnny
Depp
Benedict Cumberbatch Tom healers Michael
Fassbender Eddie Redmayne Hugh Jackman
dozens of people so what is that I can
do and other reporters can’t is that I
can make all these in interviewees if
you relaxed and comfortable within one
minute why because we only got like five
word a menace
you have to ask them a lot of questions
you have to get the answer that was
unlike the answer he gave like to maybe
hundreds of different media before and
you don’t only help maybe one minute to
make acquaintance to make them feel that
you are friendly it made them trust you
so you only have one minute to do that I
can do that with you one minute even
with someone some big figure like Nolan
so that’s uh that’s my thing and after
two years this one it was quicker after
two years I became not one interviewer I
become the interviewer for all the
studios when they are promoting their
film Hollywood blockbusters in China
they will come to me to do the
interaction to have all kinds of
activities with the talents and that is
not even like my past achievement or
something time the most proud of this is
something and that the host just
mentioned that before after two years of
that I really traveled a lot around the
world and at the same time when I was
interviewing them I also talked about
Chinese culture and the things it
matters to me the most so I became one
of 50 people who influenced the
relationship between US and China so
what a coincidence
NYU Shanghai America China so I think in
the future I can see your name on this
list right you are at the frontier I try
very hard to me 15 years to to reach
here but for you you’re already here
you just need to work very hard maybe
from like 15 years from now I can see
you names on this list
I love this magazine actually I’m a
subscriber to this magazine foreign
policy is a great magazine in the United
States you can see on the squeeze on
with some big names like Mark Zuckerberg
Bob Iger Matt Damon okay so and to sum
it all up I want to say every encounter
is an opportunity as my life experience
show you just show you and usually
people like to quote some inspiring
words or phrases like carpe diem means
to seize the day which sounds a lot of
classier because he’s in Latin I would
not do that instead okay with this quote
I don’t know how to pronounce that I’ll
try but I will try approve it
el momento actually it means seize the
moment that’s different because it’s not
in Latin you see in Spanish this is what
I’m trying to say
but you ask this question how because
it’s counter as against you is something
confronts you it can be intimidating
sometimes these opportunities can be you
enemies
how can you tackle them hang how can you
seize the moment
I have three other wisest for you the
first one is be prepared
that’s another cliche right but what I
mean is I encourage you to soak up all
the information and skills and the
things seemingly useless right now that
you can get your hands on you have the
perfect opportunity here yes yesterday
on my tour around your building
I saw amazing programs amazing courses
and you have great and brilliant
professors maybe the best faculty in the
world so you have this chance to get
your hands on all different kinds of
knowledge you know when I was in in high
school my mom liked to cut is gonna cut
a knowledge garbage knowledge why
because according to her definition
everything outside at the your school or
your school book or a textbook we are
reading a novel
ass garbage book actually for me it is
not TCM traditional Chinese medicine
knowledge to help me to to get where I
am today is all is like useless or
garbage knowledge ease to get me here so
get everything you can get your hands on
so be prepared to MPU versatile the
second thing is dream big
Tom Harlan sat in the film Inception
that you mustn’t be afraid to dream a
little bigger darling
I think by that I mean don’t aim for the
moon
aim for the Sun because 15 years ago I
couldn’t believe I couldn’t imagine that
I could make the lease of fifty people
who influenced China America
relationship so I cannot imagine that so
trim big even if you’re you fail you’ll
be remember you know in Greek mythology
there’s someone called a career
he had a Waxwing you tried to fly to the
Sun but he failed and fell to the ground
but we still remember him as the first
guy in history first person in history
who tried to reach the Sun but maybe you
know it’s all singles a is the shopping
day maybe he got his knockoff wins on
tawa or something that’s not the point
just dream big the third thing is make
it or break it
give it all you got so half manager will
not work for me
if I try to do something if I try to
achieve something I will be relentless
you want to sleep you can’t always sleep
later right if you want to get easy and
that’s true that’s not like a joke not
even a joke because the past year are
the years in college that’s that’s
that’s what I think you got a bachelor
resources right now you got that bass
like mammary you got a pass like a
physical condition right now do the
things you wanted to and maybe you will
regret later but at least you can try
and last I want to give you a little tip
because a lot of people who ask me well
I always like to be a woman like
influencer yes like good sides and bad
sides I want to talk about passe
you know chose internet shows social
media chose a lot of people are trying
to like a hack oh you try to start stir
up some like fight or argument
just ignore them just ignore them don’t
feed them the attention they are
desperately seeking that’s the attention
that feeds them to seek Norden don’t
answer to them there are comments or a
primary message just like a blacklist em
so in the end I want to emphasize this
resemblance what I’m trying to do is to
make the things from another like a
culture accessible to the common Chinese
like viewers or Chinese people and you
are at this crossroad also and you are
at the frontier of this crossroad the
East and the West
United States in China I really hope you
can make it you have a greater much
greater starting point and I had 13
years ago so 15 years ago my dream was
to be a teacher and then 12 years ago I
tried I try to be like I really made it
to be a teacher and then I try to do
something in the subtitle world and like
seven years ago I started to be a woman
and then two years ago I try to be an
interviewer I made it I think you can
make something in a bigger so that’s my
best wishes to all your guys here thank
you for your time
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