Yuying Tong received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently a Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research areas crosscut social demography, migration and immigration, family and life course, gender, and population health/well-being. She is the co-director of the Center for Chinese Family Studies (CCFS) at the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yuying Tong has published widely in leading journals in her field of study. She has also served as an editorial board member of leading sociology and family studies journals, such as Social Forces, the Journal of Marriage and Family, the Chinese Sociological Review, and Social Science Research.