Historical recovery status: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located; legacy Chinese encoding partially garbled in the preserved page.
A surviving FreeChina.net file titled tongdian June 5 contains a message from the Free China Movement Unity Conference addressed to political dissidents working inside mainland China. The preserved page identifies the conference, gives FreeChina.net contact information and dates the message to June 7, 1998 in Washington, D.C.
The original Chinese text survives in legacy encoding and is partially garbled in modern rendering. The recoverable structure shows that the message expressed respect for dissidents inside China, referred to earlier democracy-movement figures, stated that the Washington Unity Conference had concluded, and pledged support and cooperation.
No silently reconstructed Chinese text is published here until the original encoding is reliably decoded.
Provenance
- Original date stated in source: June 7, 1998
- Historical file:
/file/tongdian.html - Wayback capture used: February 18, 1999
- Recovery classification: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located; legacy encoding pending full restoration