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Henri Doré spent his life collecting examples of Chinese folk art. Written off by many of his contemporaries, that collection has become an important window into the country’s past. Tou-Se-We Museum, located on a quiet street in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, sits atop the former site of the Tou-Se-We Orphanage. Established by Western missionaries in 1864, the orphanage trained children in skills such as painting, music, sculpture, woodcarving, and printing. Today, the museum’s collection centers around the works of art those children — including the painter Xu Yongqing and the sculptor Zhang Chongren — would go on to create. But the Tou-Se-We Museum also holds a range of important, if often overlooked documents, including a complete copy of Henri Doré’s “Researches into Chinese Superstitions” — a once-maligned series of books that has undergone a major critical reappraisal in recent years. Henri Doré was born on Aug. 14, 1859, in Bessé-sur-Braye in western France. A
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