Red cloth-bound 'Certificate of Honour' cover with gold lettering and a…

Description

Red cloth-bound 'Certificate of Honour' cover with gold lettering and a decorative border, photographed sideways on a dark table. Issuer legible at the bottom as 鞍钢水泥厂 (Angang Cement Plant).

Significance to the comparison

Everyday material evidence of working life at Angang (Anshan Iron & Steel), contributed from a family collection. Objects like this are the physical trace of the danwei world the oral histories describe.

Provenance

Field collection

Photographed in Anshan, July 2026; contributed by a participating family; personal identifiers redacted where present. Original held by the family.

Evidence media

• Photograph of the object (web copy shown; original held privately).

Sources single-source record — corroborating source pending

1. Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).