杨澜TED双语励志演讲稿（精选2篇）
My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. I remember that in the year of 1990, when I was graduating from college, I was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-star hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheraton — it’s still there. So after being interrogated by this Japanese manager for a half an hour,he finally said, “So, Miss Yang, do you have any questions to ask me?” I summoned my courage and poise and said, “Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?” I didn’t have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel. That was the first day I set my foot in a five-star hotel.
Around the same time, I was going through an audition —the first ever open audition by national television in China — with another thousand college girls. The producer told us they were looking for some sweet,innocent and beautiful fresh face. So when it was my turn, I stood up and said,“Why [do] women’s personalities on television always have to be beautiful,sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can’t they have their own ideas and their own voice?” I thought I kind of offended them. But actually, they were impressed by my words. And so I was in the second round of competition,and then the third and the fourth. After seven rounds of competition, I was the last one to survive it. So I was on a national television prime-time show. And believe it or not, that was the first show on Chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds without reading an approved script.(Applause) And my weekly audience at that time was between 200 to 300 million people.
Well after a few years, I decided to go to the U.S. and Columbia University to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my ownmedia company, which was unthought of during the years that I started mycareer. So we do a lot of things. I’ve interviewed more than a thousand peoplein the past. And sometimes I have young people approaching me say, “Lan, you changed my life,” and I feel proud of that. But then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country. I was in Beijing’s bidding for the Olympic Games. I was representing the Shanghai Expo. I saw China embracing the world and vice versa. But then sometimes I’m thinking, what are today’s young generation up to? How are they different, and what are the differences they are going to make to shape the future of China, or at large,the world?
So today I want to talk about young people through the platform of social media. First of all, who are they? [What] do they look like?Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei — 20 years old, beautiful. She showed offher expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese version of Twitter. And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of Commerce. She didn’t realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross. The controversy was so heated that the Red Cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.
So far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title — probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity.All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce. It’s very complicated to explain. But anyway, the public still doesn’t buy it. It is still boiling. It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past. And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.
Microblog boomed in the year of , with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled. Sina.com, a major news portal, alone hasmore than 140 million microbloggers. On Tencent, 200 million. The most popular blogger — it’s not me — it’s a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans. About 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people,under 30 years old. And because, as you know, the traditional media is still heavily controlled by the government, social media offers an opening to let thesteam out a little bit. But because you don’t have many other openings, theheat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.
So through microblogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better. So how are they different? First of all, most of them were born in the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy. And because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women. That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows; we’re in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. Most of them have fairly good education.The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one percent. Incities, 80 percent of kids go to college. But they are facing an aging China with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by the year of 2030. And you know we have the tradition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when they’re sick. So it means young couples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.
So making a living is not that easy for young people.College graduates are not in short supply. In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500. So what do they do? They have to share space — squeezed invery limited space to save money — and they call themselves “tribe of ants.”And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their firstapartment. That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn,but in China it’s 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.
Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people. They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas. Most of them don’t want to go back to the countryside, but they don’t have the sense of belonging. They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare. And they’re more vulnerable to joblosses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products theyproduce. Last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern OEMmanufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease. But they died because of all different personal reasons. But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, ofthese migrant workers.
For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet,they’re able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create newbusiness in the less developed market. So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.
These diagrams show a more general social background. The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of dailynecessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms offamily income, to about 37-some percent. But then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost. The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. Now it’s 0.5 — even worse than that in America — showing us the income inequality. And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility. And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful isquite widespread. So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.
So through some of the hottest topics on microblogging,we can see what young people care most about. Social justice and governmentaccountability runs the first in what they demand. For the past decade or so, amassive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports onthe forced demolition of private property. And it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation. Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest. So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet, people cry for thegovernment to take actions to stop this.
So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passedthe right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet. We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food. And guesswhat, we have faked beef. They have sorts of ingredients that you brush on apiece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef. And then lately,people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found [refining] cooking oil from restaurant slop. So all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the Internet. And fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.
While young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-making, but sometimes they’re a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life. China is soon to pass the U.S. as the number one market for luxury brands — that’s not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere. But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S. dollars. They’re not rich atall. They’re taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status. And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle. But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.
So in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon called “naked” wedding, or “naked” marriage. It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love. And also, people are doing good through social media. And the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and kidnapped dogs for food processing was spotted andstopped on the highway with the whole country watching through microblogging.People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck. And after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued. And here also people are helping to find missing children. A father posted his son’s picture onto the Internet. After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through microblogging.
So happiness is the most popular word we have heardthrough the past two years. Happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it’s about the environment. People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? And also, how capable is the system ofself-correctness to keep more people content with all sorts of friction goingon at the same time? I guess these are the questions people are going to answer. And our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.
她是一名运动员、模特和演员。她接受了膝盖以下的双腿截肢。她把义肢比作太阳眼镜。她说：“只要态度坚定，你就可以不管任何东西，就像她的出现把人们吓得目瞪口呆那样。”
当时我正与一群约有三百名的小孩说话，年龄为六至八岁，在一间儿童博物馆。而我带了一个装满义肢的袋子，跟你们在这里看到的差不多，还将它们摆放在一张桌子上，给小孩看。就我的经验而言，孩子天生充满好奇心，尤其是对于他们不知道、不明白，或是对他们而言陌生的事物。
他们只学到对差异性感到害怕，当大人影响他们做出那样的表现，也或许是压抑了他们本有的好奇心，又或是，不允许他们问问题，希望他们变成有礼貌的小孩。所以，我想像一年级的老师走出大堂，带著一群不守规矩的孩子，老师会说：“好啦，不管怎样，就是别盯著她的腿看。”
但是，问题就在这儿。我之所以会在那儿，就是想让孩子们观察和探索。所以我就和大人达成了协定，让孩子们在没有成人陪伴下进来待两分钟。门打开后，孩子们俯身摆弄起义肢。他们这儿戳戳那儿碰碰，摇摇脚趾头，还试著把整个身体压在短跑义肢上，看看会有什么反应。
我说道：“孩子们，动动脑。我今天早上醒来，决定要能够跳过这幢房子，没什么大不了的，不过两三层的高度。但是，如果你能想到，任何动物、超级英雄、卡通人物，任何你梦想成为的人、物，你会给我造一副什麽样的腿呢?”
立即有孩子答道：“袋鼠!” “不对，不对!应该是青蛙!” “不对，应该是神探加杰特(上世纪80年代动画人物)!” “不对，不对，都不对!应该是超人特攻队(迪士尼出品动画电影)。”还有其他一些我不太熟悉的人物。然后，一个8岁的孩子说道：“海，为什么你不想飞呢?”所有在场的人，包括我，都惊叹道“对啊”。(笑声)就这样，我从一个女人，从一个这些孩子被告知用「残疾」来形容的人，变成了一个拥有他们所没有之潜能的人，一个很有可能有超人能力的人。很有趣吧!
在座有些人前在TED见过我，当时人们热烈讨论这种演讲是如何改变人生，不管你是听众还是发言人，我也不例外。TED可以说是开启了我之后10年的探索。当时，我展示的义肢是修复术的创新技术，我当时接上了碳纤维製成仿猎豹后肢的短跑义肢，可能你们昨天有看过。而这些喷漆硅胶义肢是这样的栩栩如生。
当时，我有机会号召传统医学修复领域之外的革新者，让他们把才智与科学、艺术相结合来製造义肢。这样我们就不必把外观、功能和美学划分开来，并赋予不同的价值。幸运的是，很多人作出了回应，旅程就这样开始了，很有趣。当时和我一起的还有一个TED与会者Chee Pearlman，希望她今天也在场。她当时是一本名为《ID》的杂志编辑，她将我的照片放在封面。
接下来我开始了一场奇妙的旅程，当时我碰到了很多奇妙的人和事，许多人邀请我去世界各地演讲，关于仿猎豹义肢技术。人们在演讲后找上我。不论男女，谈话内容不外乎「要知道，Aimme，你很迷人，一点不像有残疾」。(笑声)我想，这太好了，因为我一点也不自觉是残障，这真的大大地打开了我对这个主题的眼界。
美也可以被探索，一个美丽的女人应该长什麽样?什麽是性感的身体?很有趣的是，从一个人的角度看，残疾意味著什麽?我是说，有人——像Pamela Anderson(美国艳星，以胸大著称)整形比我多，可没人说她残疾。(笑声)
后来这期《ID》杂志经美术设计师Peter Saville之手，传到了时装设计师Alexander McQueen和摄影师Nick Knight手中，他们也对探索相关方面很感兴趣。参加完TED三个月后，我搭上了前往伦敦的航班，摄製我的第一组时尚杂志照片。结果可以从这本杂志封面看出「时尚」吗?
三个月后，我初次为Alexander McQueen走秀，穿戴著一副实木手工义肢，没有人知道——大家都以为那是木靴。事实上，它们现在就在台上，葡萄藤、木兰花，令人惊豔。诗意很重要，能把陈腐和受忽视的东西提升到高层次，进入艺术的境界，能把令人生畏的东西转化成引人入胜的东西，让人驻足良久，甚至他们可能会理解。
这些是从我下一个冒险中学到的。艺术家Matthew Barney在他的影片《悬丝》，也就是这部影片让我真正地察觉到，我的义肢竟可以成为雕塑品。这时，我开始不需要模仿人体，在美学上我是完美的。后来我们研制了人们称为「玻璃腿」的义肢。虽然它们实际上是由剔透的聚胺甲酸酯製成，也就是製造保龄球的材料，很重!后来我们塑造了这种用泥土做的义肢，其中有马铃薯的根系，再把甜菜根种在顶端，还装上了很可爱的铜质脚趾，就这样完成了一项杰作。
另一个造型是半女半豹，是对我运动员生涯的小小致敬，14个小时的义肢彩绘，才看起来像有灵活爪子，尾巴摇来摇去的生物，有点像壁虎。(笑声)另一副我们合作的是这一双脚，看起来有那麽一点像水母，同样也是聚胺甲酸酯製成的。这副义肢唯一的用途就是除了电影裡的展示，就是给人们感官刺激并激发人们的想像，所以奇思妙想很重要。
今天，我带了至少十二副义肢，它们是由不同的人为我製作的。不同的义肢给了我对脚下大地的不同体验。我还可以改变身高，我有五种不同的身高。今天，我有6尺1(约186cm)。我身上这副义肢大概是一年前做的，在英国的多西特整形外科做的，我把它们带回曼哈顿的家裡。
我回来后第一次外出是去参加一场高级宴会，舞会上有个我认识多年的女士，不过那时我只有5尺8(约177cm)。她看到我惊讶不已，她说道：“你怎麽那麽高!”我说道：“是啊，挺好玩的，不是吗?”有点像站在踩高跷，我从此对门框的高度有了全新体验，这是始料未及的，我乐在其中。她看著我说道：“但是，Aimme，这可不公平”，最奇妙的是她是认真的，能随意改变身高，可不公平。
那时我才知道，也就是这时我才知道社会上人们的话题在近10年来已有了重大变革。不再只是克服先天障碍，是关于提升，是关于潜能。义肢的作用不再仅局限于代替身体缺失的部分，它们可以作为一种象徵，象徵使用者可以在属于他们的空间里随心所欲地创造东西。所以那些社会一度认为是残障的人，可以成为塑造自己个性的建筑师，并且的确在继续改变那些个性，仅凭设计自己的身体，从一个赋予你能力的地方获取灵感。
现在令我激动不已的是通过尖端科技，机器人技术、仿生学及由来已久的诗意，我们向瞭解自身的集体人性迈进了一步。我认为要发掘自身人性的全部潜质，就要赞美那些令人心碎的力量，那些光荣的残缺，人人都有。
