1.   Decades of Communist rule and recent pell-mell development, far from uprooting the male bias in the Chinese countryside, have yielded new pressures to have sons.

2.   Dogs have always been tolerated in the Chinese countryside in working roles like guarding flocks and in some regions as a source of food.

3.   The Chinese migrants had traveled much of the way from the Chinese countryside by various forms of public transport.

4.   The struggle to survive in the Chinese countryside has greatly eased.

5.   While the virus is thought to be nonexistent in large stretches of the Chinese countryside, it is spreading wildly in border areas where intravenous drug use is common.

6.   He was on the wall for about a half-hour, admiring the Chinese countryside in the setting sun.

7.   But others dissolved into gangs of criminals who ravaged the Chinese countryside.