Her maternal great-grandfather, Xiong Wenqing, sold his family property to support the Xinhai Revolution and was a close friend of Huang Xing, serving as a key figure in the Tongmenghui and as the last Speaker of the Hubei Provincial Assembly.
[3] Due to her parents' reluctance to keep her in contact with the performing arts, Xu lived with her grandmother at the China Foreign Affairs University from nine days old until her third year of high school.
She returned to China for the filming of The Founding of a Republic, in which she plays Soong Ching-ling, earning the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2014 and 2015, she joined the first and second seasons of the Hunan TV travel reality show Divas Hit the Road, which sparked Internet controversy and memes.
and Xu, was halted after initial shooting due to the K-content ban in China in 2017 after South Korea's deployment of THAAD system.
In November 2023, her office, Dongyang Cangguo Film and Television Studio, was ordered to pay 6.24 million RMB due to a contract dispute, which was believed to stem from her industry blacklisting.
[8] Xu Qing's first boyfriend during her senior year of high school was Wu Ruofu, who was then with the Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Troupe.
[12] On The Jin Xing Show, Xu explained that the breakup with Wang was due to her inability to separate work from their personal lives, although they remained friends thereafter.
[13] In 1995, after filming The Emperor's Shadow, Xu moved to Singapore and took a three-year hiatus from acting, returning in 1998 with the publication of a photo collection.
He obtained his PhD from Peking University's Department of Oriental Studies, reportedly through his personal connection with Ji Xianlin while his 2000 dissertation lacking academic standards.
[18] During this period, Xu was rumored to be involved with a married poet, leading her to turn to Buddhism due to her troubled love life.
[19] In 2006, a magazine published an article revealing the extramarital affair between the disgraced China Construction Bank president Wang Xuebing and an actress (alias Song Jingjing).
[20] Xu sued the weekly's owner The Nanfang Daily, which later issued an apology, acknowledging the lack of sufficient evidence for their report.
In 2017, the Central Party School Press published a collection of interviews with corrupt officials, where Wang Xuebing's description of his actress lover (alias Anna) is widely believed to be Xu.