Bao Gaoliang is the father of Rachel Chu, and one of the secondary characters in the book series by Kevin Kwan.
Background[]
Gaoliang is a wealthy businessman and politican in China, the husband of Bao Shaoyen, and the father of Carlton Bao and Rachel Chu.
In his younger days, Gaoliang was known as Kao Wei. When he was seventeen, he came to the aid of a neighbor, Kerry Chu, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with the son of a wealthy family. Gaoliang fell in love with her, and she later became pregnant with his baby. Kerry was eventually forced to run away to the United States to prevent their daughter, Rachel, from being permanently disabled by the parents of her husband, who had wanted a baby boy and sought to bypass the One Child Policy by blinding Rachel in one eye. Gaoliang did not discover his daughter until thirty years later when he was reunited with Rachel and Kerry through his accidental discovery by Eleanor Young, Rachel's soon-to-be mother-in-law.
Gaoliang would later marry Bao Shaoyen and have a son, Carlton