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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.
1851 Living at 12 Warwick Square, Christchurch, London: Peter P. Thoms (age 60 born Exeter), Printer and Stationer. With his wife Jane Dobson Butler (age 52 born London) and their two children John Alexander Thoms (age 21 born London) and Jane Ellen Thoms (age 20 born London). 1855 Died. Of Foley Terrace, Pentonville. See Also
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. Instead, neither a casual “amateur” nor an institutionally sanctioned “professional,” Thoms pioneered a translation model as a ...
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The case of Peter Perring Thoms, a printer by trade and a China scholar by inclination, invites us to revisit the postcolonial paradigms that stress the instrumental and statist motivations for nineteenth-century British engagement with China. Thoms (1790–1855) was once lauded in pro-Chartist circles as “the best Chinese scholar England has ...
Introduction. THE CASE OF PETER PERRING THOMS, a printer by trade and a China scholar by inclination, invites us to revisit the postcolonial paradigms that stress the instrumental and statist motivations for nineteenth-century British engagement with China. Thoms (1790–1855) was once lauded in pro-Chartist circles as“the best Chinese ...
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. In particular, Thoms redeployed the discourses of antiquarianism in China and in Britain respectively to create an
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
