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My project is an intersection of religious history (focusing on the missionaries and their practices) and the social/urban history of Manila and Macao as centres of Catholic missionary networks in East and Southeast Asia. In this work, I argue that these cities served as the ground or space for the formation of missionary paradigms both in the regional and local (that is, within the boundaries of the empire as applied to China and of the colony as applied to the Philippines) levels. In this project, I focus on the Dominican friars, a Catholic mendicant order, who served as missionaries in the Philippines, China, Indochina, Formosa, and Japan and maintained a network through their Order's hierarchical and communal structures. I limit my sources to their provincial acts that were held biennially, the various letters written by the missionaries, chronicles, and histories that were written between the 17th and the 20th centuries.

Clasara, Argene Á. Review of Carlos L. Quirino's Old Manila by Carlos L. Quirino, edited by María Eloísa G. Parco-de Castro. Philippiniana Sacra, LVII, no. 174 (September-December 2022): 604-606.

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