Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Ding Zi Hu (lit. "Nail House"):
(It's called a "nail house" in Chinese because it's so hard to pull out)
Person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.......more

1 comment:

Dr. Know said...

Amazing!
Around here, they would simply threaten you, kill you, burn you out, or have the government take it and turn it over to private developers. And while I'm not a structural geo-engineer, I don't believe it will be long before that column collapses, probably taking the resident out when it does. Problem solved.

I guess they don't uphold eminent domain proceedings in China. Wow, they're so primitive... :-\