Pires, Tomé
(ca. 1468-1524 im Gefängnis in China) : Portugiesischer Diplomat
Subjects
History : China - Europe : Portugal
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Index of Names : Occident
Chronology Entries (2)
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| 1 | 1517 | Erste offizielle portugiesische Gesandtschaft unter Tomé Pires von Malakka bis Guangzhou (Guangdong) und Beijing. Er ist portugiesischer Botschafter in China. Die Mission misslingt. |
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| 2 | 1517 |
Pires, Tomé ; Rodrigues, Francisco. The Suma oriental of Tomé Pires [ID D1628]. Pires schreibt vor seiner Reise nach China : "The king of China is a heathen... The people of China are white, as white as we are... They are rather like Germans. They have thirty or forty hairs in their beards. They were very well-made French shoes with square toes. All Chinese eat pigs, cows and other animals... They are weak people of small account. Those who are to be seen in Malacca are not very truthful, and steal - that is the common people. They eat with two sticks, and the earthenware of china bowl in their left hand close to their mouth, with the two sticks to suck in. This is the Chinese way. The women look like Spanish women... They put a lot of ceruse on their faces and paint on the top of it, and they are so made up that Seville has no advantage ower them... They all carry fans in their hands. They are as white as we are, and some of them have small eyes and other large, and noses as they must be." "Their method is to boil water in a great jar, and when it bubbles, to put a little child in an iron cage, place this over the jar and steaming the child in the vapour until the sweat comes out. When it has all come out they take the child from the cage and with a brush of iron bristles remove the softened skin. The child is still living. Then they kill it, slitting the abdomen and removing the intestines and stomach ; the body is then further steamed before it is eaten." |
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Bibliography (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1587 | Pires, Tomé. Sommario di tutti li regni, città, & populi orientali, con li traffichi & mercantie, chei iui si trouano, cominciando dal mar rosso fino alli popoli delle China. Tradotto dalla lingua Portuguese nella Italiana. In : Ramusio, Giovanni Battista. Delle navigationi et viaggi. 4a ed. (Venezia : Giunti, 1587). = Pires, Tomé ; Rodrigues, Francisco. The Suma oriental of Tomé Pires : an account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515; and, The book of Francisco Rodrigues, rutter of a voyage in the Red Sea, nautical rules, almanack and maps, written and drawn in the East before 1515. Tomé Pires; Francisco Rodrigues, rutter of a voyage in the Red Sea, nautical rules, almanack and maps, written and drawn in the East before 1515. (London : The Hakluyt Society, 1944). (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society., 2nd ser ; no. 89 - 90). [Beschreibung von Indien und Malakka. Die Angaben über China sind aus zweiter Hand]. | Publication / Pire-Ramu1 |
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