Chu Lingqu came from an aristocratic family, as the daughter of the official Chu Cheng (褚澄), a younger brother of Chu Yuan, who served as a high level official during late Liu Song and later served as prime minister for Southern Qi's founding emperor, Emperor Gao.
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In 1971 he earned a PhD degree with a thesis on "The Emergence of Chu Yuan-chang, 1360–65."