Historical recovery status: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located. The Internet Archive preserves a direct snapshot of the FreeChina.net homepage captured December 1, 1998 at 03:33:35.
Recovered original site evidence
The surviving homepage identifies the site as 自由中国运动 / Free China Movement and exposes English and French editions. The archived navigation includes the movement’s Declaration of Moral Purpose, a guest book, the Free China Discussion Forum, and links to news and information sources. The surviving footer preserves the movement’s Washington, D.C. office and Falls Church mailing-address context.
This entry preserves the existence, timestamp and direct archive location of the original page. Some Chinese text in the archive is stored in a legacy character encoding and must be decoded from the archived bytes before any purported verbatim transcription is published; no missing or garbled wording is silently reconstructed here.
Provenance
- Original domain: freechina.net
- Wayback capture: December 1, 1998 03:33:35
- Direct archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/19981201033335/http://freechina.net/
- Recovery classification: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located
- Recovery date: September 18, 2026
Archive-scale discovery
A Wayback inventory check performed during this recovery run reports 6,158 archived URL records for FreeChina.net across 124 result pages. This establishes that the surviving historical corpus is far larger than the small number of pages previously reconstructed on FreeChina.live. Recovery will therefore proceed from the archived URL inventory rather than from isolated keyword searches.