ART-AS-164 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning

Dark-red leather-look 'Telephone Number Book' issued by the Angang Office

电话号码簿 (鞍钢办公室)

c. 1980s-1990s

Dark-red leather-look 'Telephone Number Book' issued by the Angang Office — photographed artifact, Anshan field collection. — 电话号码簿 (鞍钢办公室)Photographed Anshan, 2026 · web copy; original held privately

Description

Dark-red leather-look 'Telephone Number Book' issued by the Angang Office. Cover only; interior (not shown) would contain phone numbers.

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

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

Cite this record

Tim Qiao, ed., “Dark-red leather-look 'Telephone Number Book' issued by the Angang Office,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-164, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →