Water, power and gas have been cut off. Jobs have been threatened. Unmarked police cars with blacked-out windows hover menacingly.
With a year to go before the Beijing Olympics, some people are still refusing to quit their houses in areas marked for redevelopment, despite the threats and government's insistence there is not a problem.
Left: Chinese workers busy build grand stage for the up coming one-year milestone countdown party to the Beijing 2008 Olympic games at the Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, 02 August 2007. TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images
Photographs: Getty Images
Text: Ben Blanchard/Reuters
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