Nailing China’s Nail House
In February, China’s
Internet chat rooms were filled with pictures of a lone house isolated a dozen
meters above its surroundings after developers carved out the land all around
it for yet another project while the defiant Chonqing homeowners refused to
budge.
The story, about what would become known as the “nail house”,
partly because of its precarious posit…
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