Marina Torres Trimállez: “Trafficking girls and Catholic missionary networks in the South China Sea (18th-19th centuries): a transnational approach”.

I would like to share with you today a small part of the history of European missionaries, and more specifically of the Mendicants (Franciscans and Dominicans) in China and specifically present my research on their participation in a very understudied network of girls' movement across of the South China Sea during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Today, Kate and José talk with Marina Torres (Catholic University of Louvain) about a Catholic priestly cap that comes from the Guangdong Provincial Museum (China) and is dated to the period of the Qianlong Emperor (1736-1795).