Anshan

Tanggangzi: Hot Water and Historic Buildings ↗

Historic villas and an underground bathing building reveal several lives of Tanggangzi. Water-resource records add a less visible history of measurement and management.

Xiuyan Jade: Carving with the Stone ↗

A lid that fits, a thin vessel wall and a chain that moves all begin with decisions about what to leave in a block. Xiuyan’s carvers make those decisions visible.

Making Steel, Making Anshan ↗

A sintering machine, a relocated furnace and a worker’s tool fixture tell different parts of Anshan’s industrial history. Together they explain how production depended on judgement as well as scale.

Qianshan’s Buddhist and Daoist Paths ↗

Qianshan’s temples do not all belong to one religion. Images, founding relationships and musical repertoires reveal different institutions sharing a mountain.

Qianshan: Pines, Stone and the Shape of a Mountain ↗

A rock cleft, a named pine and a terrace beneath a temple roof offer three scales for reading Qianshan. The pear-growing country adds a fourth: a mountain landscape that also produces a harvest.