Topological invariance of chern classes

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Are Chern classes topological invariants? To be more precise: Given two complex manifolds $M$ and $N$.

Does a homeomophism $f:M\to N$ map Chern classes to Chern classes?

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No. Even Chern numbers are not topologically invariant — an example was given by Borel and Hirzebruch in 1959 (Characteristic classes and homogeneous spaces, §24.11).