No "May 4th" in our house Lindy Hsu was born in 1933, the youngest child in an influential family in Yixing County, Jiangsu Province. Her great-grandfather, Hsu Chih-ching, had been a Grand Secretary in the Qing court (roughly equivalent to a modern-day cabinet member), and was a leading reformer during the closing years of the Qing dynasty.
生於民國二十二年、今年六十八歲的徐令儀，是歷史學家徐子明的么女。徐家是江蘇宜興的世家大族，曾祖徐志靖大學士，是晚清變法運動的先導者。