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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on November 23, 2012, 11:57:12 AM
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This seems atypical of the 'China' I grew up hearing about........ Thirty years ago the guy and his family would have been bulldozered right along with the house.
Home amid Chinese highway a symbol of resistance
In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duck farmer who said "no."
Luo Baogen and his wife are the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
Dramatic images of Luo's home have circulated widely online in China this week, becoming the latest symbol of resistance in the frequent standoffs between Chinese homeowners and local officials accused of offering too little compensation to vacate neighborhoods for major redevelopment projects.
There's even a name for the buildings that remain standing as their owners resist development. They are called "nail houses" because the homeowners refuse to be hammered down.
(http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1c2HMlyq_WwvBN.setvyBw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MjAwMDtjcj0xO2N3PTMwMDA7ZHg9MDtkeT0wO2ZpPXVsY3JvcDtoPTQyMDtxPTg1O3c9NjMw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d8d3f4a7e76b9f20210f6a706700af44.jpg)
http://news.yahoo.com/home-amid-chinese-highway-symbol-resistance-105047909.html
Of course I could put a foil hat on and say it's just propaganda to make us all feel warm and fuzzy about the 'little guy'....... ;D
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Or it could be to make us feel bad about our own "eminent domain" laws.
Luo Baogen, wonder if he's a distant cousin ? ;D
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Or it could be to make us feel bad about our own "eminent domain" laws.
Luo Baogen, wonder if he's a distant cousin ? ;D
Crap!... Don't know how I managed to miss that!!! ;D ;D ;D