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endeavours have merged and fostered artistic talents through which a “confluence” of Eastern artists and Western visual arts has developed that crosses over the limits of its intended objectives. Chen Yaowang, currently the director of the Shanghai Yousheng Biochemical Technique Research Institute, commemorates how in the past century the Tushanwan Orphanage of Xujiahui, Shanghai, has given its many pupils, and particularly to Zhang Chongren (1907-1998) the basic education and artistic formation that changed their lives. Zhang Chongren became a Chinese artist and sculptor best remembered in Europe as the friend of Hergé, the Belgian comics writer, and artist and creator of Tintin. The two met when Zhang was an art student in Brussels.
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