Hélène Vu Thanh is Associate Professor at the University of Bretagne-Sud/Institut universitaire de France. She specializes on the study of missionaries in and around Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her recent research focuses on the funding of the Japanese mission from a local and global perspective. Her publications include: Devenir japonais. La mission jésuite au Japon (1549–1614) (Paris: PUPS, 2016). She is the co-editor with Ines Županov of the book Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th c.) (Leiden: Brill, 2020).