Bao Gaoling

Bao Gaoliang is one of the secondary characters in the book series by Kevin Kwan.

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He is a well known politician and businessman from China. He is the biological father of Rachel Chu. Gaoling was born in China and was known as Kao Wei when he was younger.

When he was seventeen, he helped a neighbour, Kerry Chu, that was being treated badly by her husband. She became pregnant with Gaoling’s baby and ran away to the United States. Gaoling did not know she was his baby until 30 years later when he met Kerry again and she confessed the truth to him.

After changing his name to Bao Gaoling, he married Bao Shaoyen and they had a son together. In the beginning, he’s afraid of what the existence of Rachel could do to his political career but later accepts his daughter publicly as a member of his family.