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Peter Perring Thoms (1791 – December 1855) was an English printer and Chinese language translator based in Canton (Guangzhou) and Macau, China. Biography [ edit] Thomas was born in Exeter, Devon, around 1791. [1] [2] Morrison's Chinese Dictionary [ edit] Thoms arrived in Macau on 2 September 1814. [3] .
Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855), an Exeter born English printer and Chinese language translator based in Canton (Guangzhou) and Macau, China. 1790 March 15th. Born in Exeter the son of Alexander Thoms and his wife Catherine. 1814 Arrived in Macau.
section of the Exhibition, Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855), printer, plebeian intellectual, former EIC employee in Macao, and literary translator from the Chinese, contested the triumphalist rhetoric of the British crown.
Peter Perring Thoms (1781 - December 1855) RA Collection: People and Organisations. English printer, stereotyper, and Chinese language translator based in Canton (Guangzhou) and Macau, China. In the 1830s he had his own printing shop at 12 Warwick Square, London. Profile. Born: 1781. Died: December 1855. Nationality: British. Gender: Male.
May 1, 2015 · This essay argues that Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), a printer in the service of the British East India Company in Macau, fashioned a Chinacentric sinology that cannot be readily subsumed under statist and other instrumental forms of Orientalism.
- Sieber, Patricia
In this essay, Sieber argues that Peter Perring Thoms, a printer in the service of the British East India Company in Macau, fashioned a Chinacentric sinology that cannot be readily subsumed under statist and other instrumental forms of Orientalism.
In 1814, the East India Company sent the printing engineer Peter Perring Thoms. Together with Morrison's Chinese assistants such as Cai Gao and Liang Fa, he created the Chinese character font for the dictionary.