Prof Richard Bowring

Career: mgmnt trainee Cathay Pacific Airways 1968-70, lectr in Japanese Monash Univ Melbourne 1976-78, asst prof of Japanese Columbia Univ NY 1978-79, assoc prof of Japanese Princeton Univ 1979-84, prof of Japanese studies Univ of Cambridge 1985-2012 (lectr in Japanese 1984), fell Downing Coll Cambridge 1985-2000 (hon fell 2000-), Master Selwyn Coll Cambridge 2000-; readership British Acad 1995-97; memb Review Ctee for Oriental Studies Univ of Oxford 2000; tstee Cambridge Fndn 1989-98, advsr to UFC 1991-92, Crown rep Governing Body SOAS Univ of London 1994-99, chm HEFCE Working Pty on Funding of SOAS 2000

Books and Publications: Mori Ogai and the Modernisation of Japanese Culture (1979), Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs (1982), Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (1988), Introduction to Modern Japanese (1992), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (1993), The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1996), Fifty Years of Japanese at Cambridge (1998), Cambridge Intermediate Japanese (2002), The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500-1600 (2005)