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The Man Who Built an Unusual Building to Resist a Tourist Project in China

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Xingyi, China. Among the rubble of demolished houses, Chen Tianming’s unstable tower, made of wooden boards and twisted beams, symbolizes the stubbornness of a man alone in front of the system. In 2018, authorities demolished most of Chen’s village, located in Guizhou province (southwest), to build a tourist project. But Chen, 42 years old, refused to leave and, after the project failed, challenging a series of demolition orders, built, floor by…
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Xingyi, China. Among the rubble of demolished houses, Chen Tianming’s unstable tower, made of wooden boards and twisted beams, symbolizes the stubbornness of a man alone in front of the system. In 2018, authorities demolished most of Chen’s village, located in Guizhou province (southwest), to build a tourist project. But Chen, 42 years old, refused to leave and, after the project failed, challenging a series of demolition orders, built, floor by…

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udgtv broke the news in on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
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