Gao Boling

• Gao Bailing, courtesy name Fuchen, and alias Laoan Shanjin, was skilled in landscape and figure painting. He passed the imperial examination in the Jiachén year (1904) and became a jinshi. In 1906, he went to Tokyo University in Japan to study politics, where he developed close relations with prominent figures such as Ito Hirobumi and Saionji Kinmochi. Later, he served as a professor at the Law and Politics University in Beijing.