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To understand the background of the incident – and the plight of Chinese homeowners attempting to resist eviction when the government wants to build something on their land – watch this short video:

Now that you’ve got the background, you’re ready for the story from the Telegraph on the Kung Fu hero:

When 38-year-old Shen Jianzhong was faced with a mob of thugs trying to evict him, he asked himself what his hero, Bruce Lee, would do.

The answer, according to a video that has attracted more than two million hits on the Chinese internet, is turn to kung fu.

For 20 years, Mr Shen had been practising kung fu, teaching himself Bruce Lee’s system in his courtyard home in Bazhou, Hebei province.

Working in a local gym as a fitness coach, he is also the holder of a world record, at least according to an association in Hong Kong, for the most press-ups in a minute using a roller. “I am now training to break the record for most press-ups on a balance beam,” he said.

At the end of October, Mr Shen was able to put his kung fu into action. For six months, a property developer had been trying to get his hands on Mr Shen’s house.

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UPDATE: The “Nail House” featured in the video above has been destroyed by the Chinese Cabal as reported in the UK’s Telegraph –

The house became the latest rallying point for householders who complained against officials accused of offering unfair compensation.

Xiayangzhang village chief Chen Xuecai said the house was bulldozed on Saturday after its owners, duck farmer Luo Baogen and his wife, agreed to accept compensation of 260,000 yuan (£26,000).

The couple had been the lone holdouts from a neighbourhood that was demolished to make way for the main road heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling, in Zhejiang province.

The razing comes a week after images of the house circulated widely online in China, triggering a flurry of domestic and foreign media reports about the latest “nail house,” as buildings that remain standing as their owners resist development are called.

Mr Luo, 67, had just completed his house at a cost of about 600,000 yuan (£60,000) when the government approached him with their standard offer of 220,000 (£22,000) to move out – which he refused, Chen has previously said. The offer then went up to 260,000 yuan last week.

Read the rest of the story by clicking – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9716233/Chinese-authorities-demolish-Nail-House-in-the-middle-of-road.html