The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, with support from the East Asian Studies Center and Institute of Japanese Studies, presents:
Peter Kornicki
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies
Deputy Warden
Robinson College
University of Cambridge
Abstract: What kinds of lives did Chinese texts have when they were transmitted to other societies and repackaged there? Why were some texts ignored and others prized? What roles did the vernaculars play? This lecture will focus on two less-well-known texts that had quite different fates, namely the Zhenguan zhengyao and the Tangyin bishi.
Bio: Professor Kornicki received a BA in Japanese and Korean at Oxford and a D.Phil. in 19th-century Japanese literature. He has spent about six years in Japan in total, mostly in Kyoto. He first taught Japanese at the University of Tasmania, in Australia, where he also acquired a taste for Australian wine and bushwalking in the Tasmanian Wilderness. After four years there, from 1978 to 1982, he became associate professor at the Humanities Research Institute of Kyoto University. From the beginning of 1985 he has been based in Cambridge as lecturer, reader and then, from 2001, as professor. In 1992 he was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize (with Hayashi Nozomu), in 2002 he was elected a fellow of The British Academy, in 2011 he received the degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford, in 2012 he was elected a member of the Academia Europea and in 2013 he was awarded the Yamagata Bantô prize.
This event is made possible by the OSU Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Institute for Chinese Studies, Institute for Japanese Studies, Institute for Korean Studies, and by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
