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4.29. 52,986 ratings1,350 reviews. Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself ...
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Tai-Pan's Chinese for supreme leader; the man with real power...Such a Tai-Pan's Dirk Struan who's obsessed to make Hong Kong the jewel in the crown of her British Majesty. In 1841, he achieves the goal, but has many enemies who try to destroy his dream.
727. Preceded by. Shōgun. (in chronology of Asian Saga) Followed by. Gai-Jin. Tai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium War. It is the second book in Clavell's Asian Saga, and the first to feature the fictional Struan family.
“There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy.
Nov 7, 1986 · Tai-Pan is so strong that he can demolish a boatful of rough-looking Chinese attackers single-handedly, but when it comes to white men, he has trouble one on one. Anyhow, he gets the British ...
