Is the Nail House still standing? Zola investigates...

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With a media blackout on reporting about the "Nail House" - a piece of property that refuses to surrender to developers, and has been surrounded by a massive development pit - it's tough to know if it's still standing.

One Chinese blogger has dared to find out...

Zola, a Chinese blogger who professes himself to be an "Untypical Angry Youth" has set out from Hunan to see if what has quickly become Chongqing's most famous landmark still stands. Keep posted at Ya, I Yee.

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Where’s the Buzz: Nail House in China 19 weeks 4 days ago

Last Tuesday, the response to the local authorities failure to demolish Yu’s Nail House in the heart of Beijing sparked colossal surges in query “Nail House” (钉子户) in China. “Nail House” is a fairly common phenomenon in China. It refers to a standalone house which stands out like a nail in the middle of a demolition ground due to disagreement with compensation terms.

Nobody said media-whoring would be easy 1 year 23 weeks ago

Imagethief gives some excellent advice to China's first 'citizen journalist' Zola and any other blogger who wants to be famous.

Take This Development and Shove It! 1 year 35 weeks ago

What does the "nail house" in Chongqing say about China's evolving relationship with the rule of law?

Developers dig pit around man's house 1 year 38 weeks ago

A man refused to sell his house to project developers, and so the developers dug a deep pit around the man's house.The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m 'Broadway' square, including apartments and a shopping mall. But the owner of the villa says he won't move out unless the company pays his price -- the equivalent of £1.3

House of the Flying Bananas 1 year 36 weeks ago

From the Danwei article: "A group of American students of Chinese has produced a spoof kung fu film and posted it to Youtube. Apparently shot in Vermont, the film is titled House of Flying Bananas. The dialogue is in laowai-inflected Mandarin, with English subtitles."

It's a fun piece of silliness, which you can watch below or on YouTube.
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Blogger "Zola" detained, interrogated, punched, sent home via plane 51 weeks 4 days ago

[Zola] reports that he is home safe in Changsha after being detained in Shenyang, interrogated, made to write detailed reports on everybody he met and everything since arriving in Shenyang to blog about the Yilishen "ant-farmer" protests, had his ID confiscated, punched around the head and neck.

China's first citizen reporter? 1 year 35 weeks ago

From Global Voices: Out of what Zola says is a ’sensitivity to news’ and desire for fame, on Monday afternoon he hopped on the train, arriving in Chongqing two days later. Armed with a Lenovo cellphone and one thousand RMB, Zola is determined to cover the nailhouse story where domestic media currently cannot.

Trading Places: The Paperclip To House Mystery 2 years 1 week ago

ESWN has a rather twisty report about the Chinese version of Kyle MacDonald's quest to get a house out of a paperclip. What looked like just a cute Chinese girl's attempt to ripoff the idea may actually be a crafty marketing idea. Power to the netizens that search this stuff up.

HHR News: New Blogmaster Tools On Tap! 2 years 11 weeks ago

Hao Hao Report News!
Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that we've now got Blogmaster Tools for Blogger and WordPress users. If you've got a blog - why not make it easy for people to submit your posts to the Hao Hao Report?

Not super suave with HTML? Mei ta ma de wen ti! Simply follow the step-by-step instructions and you'll be rockin' in no time.