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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. Thomas was born in Exeter, Devon, around 1791. [1] [2] Morrison's Chinese Dictionary. Thoms arrived in Macau on 2 September 1814. [3] .
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
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.
May 1, 2015 · Tools. 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.
Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855), the Early Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Sphere of Letters. and Anti-Imperialist Politics. Patricia SIEBER 夏頌 Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University. This paper seeks to establish the historical significance of the neglected, yet pioneering translation practices of a ...
