From Manchuria to Taiwan Liu hails from Heilongjiang in Manchuria. Her hometown was next to the railroad on the border of China and the former Soviet Union. From early childhood she studied ballet along with Russian emigre children. When she was in her first year of middle school, the Japanese came, and thereafter she received a Japanese colonial education.
劉鳳學是黑龍江省人，家鄉在中蘇交界的中長鐵路旁，所以她從小就跟白俄的小孩一起跳芭蕾舞；上初一那年日本人來了，從此接受日本殖民教育。