Schools were reduced to rubble when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Beichuan county in Sichuan province 13 years ago, killing tens of thousands of people. Photo: AP
Opinion
Opinion
As I see it
How China’s steady erosion of media freedom rose from Sichuan’s ruins
- Journalists and activists hoped the 2008 earthquake would open a crack in censorship
- Instead, it was the start of more than a decade of tight control of traditional and online outlets
Schools were reduced to rubble when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Beichuan county in Sichuan province 13 years ago, killing tens of thousands of people. Photo: AP
