Professor Peter Kornicki FBA

Oriental and African Studies East Asia China, Japan, Korea South-East Asia Vietnam

Elected 2000

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2000
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website: http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/japanese/Kornicki.htm

Peter Kornicki retired in 2014 as Professor of Japanese after 30 years at the University of Cambridge. Most of his work has been on the cultural history of Japan, but since 2005 he has also been working on Korea and Vietnam and in 2018 completed a major study of the impact of Chinese textual culture on East Asia. Also in 2018 he published in Japanese a study of the export of Japanese books to Europe up to the 19th century. He was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize in 1992 and the Yamagata Banto Prize in 2013, and in 2017 was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan. He is an elected member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, and Academia Europaea. He was President of the European Association for Japanese Studies in 1997-2000. Currently he is editor in chief of the journal East Asian Publishing and Society and is leader of a research group at the National Institute for Japanese Literature. He continues his research and lecturing activities relating to Japan and East Asia.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

2014 -

University of Cambridge Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

2007 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

2002 - 2014

University of Cambridge Reader, Professor in Japanese History and Bibliography

1995 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

University of Cambridge University Lecturer

1985 - 1995

Publications

The female as subject: Women and the book in Japan 2010, University of Michigan

F. V. Dickins’ letters to Ernest M. Satow, Kumagusu Minakata and others 2011, Edition Synapse, Tokyo

The history of the book in East Asia 2013, Farnham, Ashgate

Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections 1991, Cambridge University Press

The reform of fiction in Meiji Japan 1982

The book in Japan: a cultural history 1998

Early Japanese books in the Russian State Library 1999

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

Syriac Studies

Professor Peter Kornicki FBA

Current post

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

2014 -

University of Cambridge Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

2007 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

2002 - 2014

University of Cambridge Reader, Professor in Japanese History and Bibliography

1995 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

University of Cambridge University Lecturer

1985 - 1995

Publications

The female as subject: Women and the book in Japan 2010, University of Michigan

F. V. Dickins’ letters to Ernest M. Satow, Kumagusu Minakata and others 2011, Edition Synapse, Tokyo

The history of the book in East Asia 2013, Farnham, Ashgate

Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections 1991, Cambridge University Press

The reform of fiction in Meiji Japan 1982

The book in Japan: a cultural history 1998

Early Japanese books in the Russian State Library 1999

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

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Professor Peter Kornicki FBA

Current post

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

2014 -

University of Cambridge Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

2007 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

2002 - 2014

University of Cambridge Reader, Professor in Japanese History and Bibliography

1995 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow

1986 -

University of Cambridge University Lecturer

1985 - 1995

Publications

The female as subject: Women and the book in Japan 2010, University of Michigan

F. V. Dickins’ letters to Ernest M. Satow, Kumagusu Minakata and others 2011, Edition Synapse, Tokyo

The history of the book in East Asia 2013, Farnham, Ashgate

Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library: A Catalogue of the Aston, Satow and von Siebold Collections 1991, Cambridge University Press

The reform of fiction in Meiji Japan 1982

The book in Japan: a cultural history 1998

Early Japanese books in the Russian State Library 1999

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

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