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Drawing on my mother's yang sheng (养生, life-nurturing) practices through food consumption as an autoethnographic 'vignette', this article seeks to tease out the different layers of sociocultural meanings underpinning a 'left-behind' ageing mother's changing diet. It brings to light the underlying gendered embodiment of food practices articulated through changing family relations (that is, a left-behind mother and an absent son). This is of particular salience within the context in which issues of ageing and care for older family members have become of major public concern in contemporary China. The article highlights the relational accounts of food practices as care, imbued with shifting personal relations within the family, which are intertwined with social and historical transformations. In particular, it develops some critical insights on food practices that are beyond an individual's reflection on self-responsibility for health. Thus, it illustrates how intergenerational family care and love are facilitated through the negotiation with everyday materiality and its practices in China.

Recent technological advances enable the collection of huge amounts

of data. Commonly, these data are generated, stored, and owned by multiple entities

that are unwilling to cede control of their data. This distributed environment

requires statistical tools that can produce correct results while preserving data privacy.

Privacy-preserving protocols have been proposed to solve specific statistical

analysis such as linear regression, clustering, and classification. In this paper, we

present methods and protocols for privacy-preserving maximum likelihood estimation

in general settings. We discuss both horizontally and vertically partitioned

data, and propose procedures that allow participating parties to withdraw from

the joint computation. Logistic regression is used to demonstrate our method.

Single male rural-urban migrant workers and the negotiation of masculinity in China / Xiaodong Lin -- Acting straight? non-heterosexual salarymen working with heteronormativity in the Japanese workplace / Romit Dasgupta -- Negotiating family/filial responsibilities: reflexivity, tradition, and Taiwanese (younger) professional men / Bo-Wei Chen and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill -- Male homosexuality in Hong Kong: a 20-year review of public attitudes towards homosexuality and experiences of discrimination self-reported by gay men / Yiu Tung Suen and Miu Yin Wong -- Sinoglossia incarnate: the entanglements of castration across the Pacific / Howard Chiang -- "Same-sex wedding", queer performance and spatial tactics in Beijing / Honwei Bao -- "Cinderella" in reverse: eroticizing bodily labor of sympathetic men in K-pop dance practice video / Chuyun Oh -- "Branding men": exploring men, masculinity and Thai alcohol brands in East Asia global markets / Jhitsayarat Siripai and Chris Haywood -- Herbivore masculinities in post-millennial Japan / Justin Charlebois -- Emerging heterosexualities in an era of TV dating: exploring young Chinese men's experiences of love and intimacy / Chao Yang -- Weapons of the weak soldiers: military masculinity and embodied resistance in Taiwanese conscription / Ying-Chao Kao -- Beyond the celebration of losers: the construction of diaosi masculinity in contemporary Chinese youth culture / Siyang Cao -- Pathways toward progressive gender consciousness for young men in Taiwan / Herng-Dar Bih

Using ethnographic data gleaned from a foreign-managed Christian school in Indonesia, this article situates the ethnic prejudices of Indonesian Chinese parents and students toward Filipino teachers within the organizational and cultural politics of private schooling. It is argued that the commoditization of education as a form of market consumption alongside the masculinized international curriculum help shape the feminization of teachers from the Philippines. Catering to the aspirations of the country's minority ethnic Chinese, privately managed schools actively recruit trained teachers from the Philippines, many of whom are female and are perceived by students and their parents as exhibiting negative symbolic capital. In the process of their employment, they encounter occasional moments of less than complete success and challenges in their jobs. This article situates this prejudice within the cultural politics of masculinized Chinese schooling in Indonesia, while seeking to shed light on the role of Filipino work migrancy in Indonesia's formal employment sector.

Giyoo Hatano was an international scholar – an adaptive expert himself. His creative methodologies and theoretical insights have enriched the work of researchers in many countries. How Hatano lived his life and treated others provides enriching insights as well. In this essay, we focus on 'adaptive expertise', one of Giyoo Hatano's major contributions to the field. We explore both the explicit information he provided about adaptive expertise and the implicit information gleaned from how he lived his life and collaborated with people around the world. By describing Giyoo Hatano's own qualities as an intercultural adaptive expert, we can begin to explore conditions for promoting those qualities.

This book focuses on three emerging research topics in mobile social networks (MSNs): privacy-preserving profile matching (PPM) protocols, privacy-preserving cooperative data forwarding (PDF) protocols, and trustworthy service evaluation (TSE) systems. The PPM helps two users compare their personal profiles without disclosing the profiles. The PDF helps users forward data to their friends via multiple cooperative relay peers while preserving their identity and location privacy. The TSE enables users to locally share service reviews on the vendors such that users receive more valuable information about the services not only from vendors but also from their trusted social friends. The authors address both theoretic and practical aspects of these topics by introducing the system model, reviewing the related works, and presenting the solutions. Security and Privacy for Mobile Social Networks further provides the security analysis and the performance evaluation based on real-trace simulations. It also summarizes the future research directions for this rapidly growing area of research. The book will be valuable for researchers and practitioners who work with mobile social networks, communication platforms, wireless communication techniques, and internet applications. --