Pei-Chia Lan is a professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University and the director of the Center for Asian Comparative Social Research. Her research focuses on gender, family, international migration, and social inequality. Her first book, Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan, and its adaptation have won numerous awards, including from the American Sociological Association, the Taipei International Book Exhibition, and the Golden Tripod Awards. Her second book, Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US, published by Stanford University Press in 2018, compares family dynamics in Taiwan and among immigrants in the US, exploring how globalization and migration challenges have shaped different parenting strategies.