Xin Tuan Liu

Computational Trust Models and Machine Learning provides a detailed introduction to the concept of trust and its application in various computer science areas, including multi-agent systems, online social networks, and communication systems. Identifying trust modeling challenges that cannot be addre...

China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort...

Its reasoning of subsistence on the scale of light year. Although the Three Body (II) is a science fiction, the reasoning accounts for the majority. Therefore, when I was writing book comments, I had to be very careful to not reveal any details. While the Three Body creatures were preparing for aggr...

The Spring 2014 edition features work by ethnic minority writers and poets. Some are tales of the customs and histories of other people: Mongolian herders in Ayonga's "To the Goat-Dipping," a satirical take on facial hair's role in Uyghur society in Memtimin Hoshur's "The Mustache Dispute," and Arta...

The Summer 2014 edition of Pathlight magazine focuses on issues to do with gender -- femininity, masculinity, and things neither or both. The men of a migrant family all fall prey to the same wasting sickness in Li Zishu's hallucinatory "The Northern Border"; male-female interactions are handled wit...

"All these behaviors appear in some form in the stories and poems featured in this issue – not necessarily as explicit themes, but more often as organic parts of narrative background. Likewise, the metaphor of the Lost and Found box isn’t offered as a standard for reading, but rather as an angled mi...

For China, "more, better, bigger, faster" has been the only doctrine of development for the last thirty-five years. Resources disappear and outward identities - countrysides, communities, relationships - are forcibly repackaged in modern materials in the interest of progress. Then, one high-speed tr...

An exploration of the conflict between traditional Chinese ideology and modern Chinese business practice