Origionally from a village in Guangdong in Southern China, Tao is now "head man" for a group of Chinese railroad workers on the Central Pacific Railroad. A former scholar and a graduate of a British engineering school in China, his natural leadership abilities and facility with the English language make him essential to Cullen's work on the Central Pacific. He's a highly capable man, but harbors a secret, and goes out of his way to avoid attention.
(Source: AMC)
