1999 — Hu Ping: “On the Changing Roles of Dissidents and Political Opposition” — FreeChina.net Forum Record

Historical recovery status: Partial Reconstruction. A 1999 Beijing Spring essay cites a FreeChina.net discussion-board page by Hu Ping (胡平), giving the title 谈“异议人士”和“政治反对派”的角色变换 and the original URL.

Recovered evidence

  • Author: Hu Ping / 胡平
  • Title: 谈“异议人士”和“政治反对派”的角色变换
  • Original URL: http://www.freechina.net/bbs/messages/341.html
  • Verified year: 1999 or earlier; the citing essay is dated September 1999

The surviving citation establishes that the essay was available through the FreeChina.net discussion system. The original page text and exact FreeChina.net posting date remain to be recovered, so no missing text is recreated here.

Provenance

The source trail is a contemporaneous 1999 Beijing Spring essay that cites the FreeChina.net page directly. This entry remains a Partial Reconstruction pending recovery of the archived original or a complete contemporary mirror.