> the Internet at not being able to find scans of that 55-page photo spread.
Because the scans of the paper don't exist, it wasn't in the printed media, it's a 55-photos slideshow in an online English news site, and it was with the quotations from the Onion without any commentary:
FYI, this is the only active archive.org entry that is valid for this url.
Curiously it looks like they switched(redirected) to en.people.cn from english.people.com.cn just days after this article was originally released. Not sure if this is an issue with archive.org and 301 redirects or if this actually occurred on this date.
Interesting either way.
I could not find instances of any of the other pages correctly archived, sorry m8.
Because the scans of the paper don't exist, it wasn't in the printed media, it's a 55-photos slideshow in an online English news site, and it was with the quotations from the Onion without any commentary:
http://www.commentary.com/region/asia_china-daily-screenshot...
Somebody had fun selecting 55 photos for the slideshow.