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Chinese immigrants in Britain are converting their homes into makeshift warehouses for goods ordered via China’s booming ...
A bulldozer demolishes the "nail house" in the center of a 10-meter-deep pit dug by the real estate developer in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on the evening of April 2, 2007. Wu Ping ...
Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital for over 900 years, has spent the past decade reinventing its downtown through an ...
Louis Vuitton's latest Shanghai store is not your average luxury flagship. The 30-meter-high, ship-shaped store, "The Louis", ...
And Pop Mart, a Chinese toymaker, has created a buzz worthy of Disney around its strange grinning (or are they grimacing?) nine-toothed dolls, called Labubus. Fans include Rihanna, a pop star, and Sir ...
China’s housing market is collapsing and there's no one left to rescue it. Developers are stuck, buyers are missing, and the population is falling off a cliff.
This picture taken on May 20, 2025 shows Chen Tianming at his house labelled China's strangest "nail house" -- households that refuse to move in the face of development plans -- in Xingyi, in ...
On Chinese social media, users describe it as China's strangest nail house, likening it to the madcap buildings in Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli masterpieces "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Spirited Away".
A quirk of China’s rampant development and partial private property laws, nail houses sometimes make headlines for delaying money-spinning construction projects or forcing developers to divert ...