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Chen Tianming’s 10-storey tower of faded plyboards and contorted beams in China’s Guizhou province. — AFP Surrounded by the rubble of demolished homes, Chen Tianming’s ramshackle tower of faded plyboards and contorted beams juts into the sky in southwestern China, a teetering monument to one man’s stubbornness. Authorities razed most of Chen’s village in Guizhou province in 2018 to build …