[1] Born in September 1937 in Wuhu County, Anhui, China, he was a 34th-generation descendant of Bao Zheng.
He was a scholar at the History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
[1] Bao also signed a petition which declared that China was still ruled by an emperor.
[1] The "emperor" which the declaration referred to was the supposedly retired Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping.
[1] Bao was arrested after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and was charged with "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement.