Category Archives: The Earnshaw Vault

Crowd attacks journalist, a long time before anti CNN

Graham Earnshaw writes about a journalist who was attacked for photographing a crowd without their permission, in 1981.

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The end of work for all in 1981

I salute you, now get a job Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he’s been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that … Continue reading

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Careless talk to foreigners

An article from 1981 about how to deal with foreigners.

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Dancing trees of Yunnan

A news story from Yunnan in 1981 about a music-loving tree.

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Tibet 27 years ago, plus ça change

A news story about Tibet from 1980.

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Driving without lights

A report about traffic conditions in Beijing — from 1981.

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Frog war

A 1981 China Daily report about frog war.

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Hooligan fiancée

A new story from 1981 about a hooligan crime.

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Beijing’s first private restaurant in The Daily Telegraph, 1980

A news article about Beijing’s first post Cultural Revolution private restaurant, orignally published in The Daily Telegraph in 1980.

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