11.  But on the streets of Chinese cities, overt signs of anger toward the U.S. government have largely dissipated.

12.  But this week, Chinese police arrested several hundred suspected drug traffickers and prostitutes in Zhuhai, the Chinese city that borders Macao.

13.  But the returnees are usually in the top income bracket in China and can live quite comfortably in Chinese cities on what they earn, she said.

14.  But with fresh economic troubles of their own, many Japanese apparently no longer view this place as an exotic European outpost but rather as yet another Chinese city.

15.  Cell phones, for example, seem to be more pervasive in Chinese cities than in most any sophisticated American metropolis.

16.  Chien Guei-Fa of Ning Po, a Chinese city, is looking skyward in another photo.

17.  Chinese cities have begun raising food prices in the wake of higher payments to farmers, officials said.

18.  Cricket fighting was a royal sport in ancient China and has persisted in some Chinese cities and in Chinese communities elsewhere.

19.  Customs officials have recently been investigated in a number of Chinese cities, including Tianjin and Shantou.

20.  Dai said Beijing planned to allow foreign banks to open more branches in more Chinese cities during the next five years.