She comes from a family at once both medical and political. Her father and husband are doctors, and her mother, medical Ph.D. Hsu Shih-hsien, went even farther in taking her ideals of medicine into politics, becoming mayor of Chiayi City and beginning the rise of the "Hsu faction."
出身醫學與政治世家，父親和先生都是名醫，而母親﹘ ﹘醫學博士許世賢﹘﹘更將行醫的理念投注到政治上，以一介女性當選嘉義市長，並且一手帶起了「許家班」。