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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).
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
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
Peter Perring Thoms (1790-1855), Cantonese Localism, and the Genesis of Literary Translation from the Chinese: Patricia SIEBER: 127 “Objects of Curiosity”: John Francis Davis as a Translator of Chinese Literature: Lawrence Wang-chi WONG: 169: Early French Sinoloy and the Question of “Plagiarizing” Re-translation:
Location, Location, Location:: Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), Cantonese Localism, and the Genesis of Literary Translation from the Chinese Download; XML “Objects of Curiosity”:: John Francis Davis as a Translator of Chinese Literature Download; XML
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
