Her father had once been a general for the Nationalist army during the war against the Japanese; her mother graduated from the Guangzhou Women's Teachers 'College. When the mainland fell to the Communists, the whole family moved to Hong Kong.
父親曾是國民政府的抗日將軍，母親畢業於廣州女子師範學院，大陸失守，全家逃到香港。