Subject	Politics and government
	Foreign relations
	Manuscripts, Chinese
	Chinese language
	Correspondence
Category	5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Creator	Preston, Yvonne
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Period Of Reference	1975/1982
Series Number	MLMSS 12059
Item Number	1l4pXDO1
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	In copyright, Copyright holder: Yvonne Preston has assigned her copyright to the Library.
Country Of Origin	China
	Australia
Language	Chinese
	English
Description From Source	0.16 metres of textual records (1 box) This collection of 5 scrapbooks contains press clippings and related publications and covers Yvonne Preston’s work as the Sydney Morning Herald’s foreign correspondent in China between 1975-1978 and the National Times’ foreign editor in 1980. Preston was there during a significant period in China’s history and international relations, with the ending of the Cultural Revolution and death of Mao Zedong on 9 September 1976; the devastating Tangshan earthquake, developments in China-Australian relations with an official visit by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in 1976, and Deng Xiaoping brought back from exile becoming leader in 1978. The collection mainly comprises clippings of articles by Preston but there are some related publications, including Chinese language newspapers.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Notebook
	Newspapers