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After the publication of Shogun, author James Clavell saw it fit to apply the. 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. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, "grand entertainment.packed with action.with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder." East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. They include Shogun, King Rat, Tai-Pan and Noble House. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan and Brock come to control much of England's trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies' wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large natural harbour that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded in mainland China, a highly lucrative.
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Tyler Brock, Struan's rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan's. The novel begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. DESCRIPTION : 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. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. 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.