| LC control no. | no2011124614 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708 |
| Variant(s) | Pereira, Thomas, 1645-1708 Pereira, Tomé, 1645-1708 Pereyra, Tomás, 1645-1708 Xu, Risheng, 1645-1708 Pereira, Father, 1645-1708 |
| Birth date | 16451101 |
| Death date | 17081224 |
| Place of birth | Portugal |
| Place of death | Beijing, China |
| Affiliation | Jesuits |
| Profession or occupation | musician |
| Found in | Tomás Pereira (1646-1708), c2009 Wikipedia, via WWW, August 10, 2011 (Thomas Pereira; or Tomás Pereira; also known as Tomé Pereira; born November 1, 1645 in Vila Nova de Famalicão; died 1708; a Portuguese Jesuit and musician who worked as a missionary in Qing China; arrived in China in 1672 and first stayed in Macau, where he was enrolled in the University College of St. Paul; later sent to Beijing to work in the court of the Kangxi emperor, where he stayed during most of his career; in 1689, the Kangxi emperor sent Pereira and his colleague Jean-François Gerbillon to interpret at the negotiations between Qing China and Russia in Nerchinsk, which eventually resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk; between 1688 and 1694, Pereira and Antoine Thomas were unofficial directors of the imperial observatory in Beijing as the actual director was not in China at the time) Stochastikon Encyclopedia, via WWW, August 10, 2011 (Tomás Pereira SJ, China missionary; name modifications: Pereyra; Chinese name: Xu Risheng; born November 1, 1645 in S. Martinho do Valle, diocese Braga, Portugal; died December 24, 1708 in Peking (Beijing), China; joined the Society of Jesus on September 25, 1661; studied at the Jesuits College in Braga, Portugal, and finished his studies in Goa (India) or in Macau; reached China in 1672 and was ordered to the Imperial Court in Peking because of his knowledge of music; wrote a treaty on European music and prepared mathematical lectures; was an important participant and interpreter at the negotiations for the treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689; from 1692 until 1695, he was Vice-Provincial of China (the superior of all Jesuits in the Vice-Province of China); for the emperor, he represented the speaker of all Jesuits at the Court; also introduced the first organ in Peking in the Xitang) History of the two Tartar conquerors of China, 1971: t.p. (to which is added Father Pereira's journey ...) OCLC, Mar. 17, 2010 (hdg.: Pereira, Thomas, 1645-1708; usage: not given) |
| Invalid LCCN | no2010045286 |
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