@mfinnie12,

We don't have archives that go back that far -- the news is cleared out afte ten or fifteen days to save disk space.

http://popupchinese.com/chinese/plugin

Why don't you install our Firefox or Chrome plugin and search for related stories on Xinhua? The segmentation won't be automatic, but the backend dictionary is the same. Just be sure to do this as a logged-in user so you get read/write instead of just read-only access on the dictionary.