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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.
Dirk Lochlin Struan (1797–1841) is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as "supreme leader", and Struan is the Tai-pan or head of his own trading company in China, Struan & Company.
Clavell wanted to write a second novel because "that separates the men from the boys". [21] The money from King Rat enabled him to spend two years researching and then writing what became Tai-Pan (1966). It was a huge best-seller, and Clavell sold the film rights for a sizeable amount (although the film would not be made until 1986). [22]
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell—descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War—to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia".
Set in the 1830s, Tai Pan is a game of international commerce for 2–4 players. Each player uses a clipper ship to buy opium in India and sell it in China, then uses three local lorchas to buy Chinese goods such as silk and tea. The players race back to England with their cargos; the first clipper ship to arrive is able to sell their goods for ...
Gai-Jin (Japanese for "foreigner") is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga, although it was the last to be published.Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chronicles the adventures of Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, in Japan.
When FX sent Shōgun by James Clavell to Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, it was not a book the husband and wife creative team had read before—but it was one they were very aware of. "We came to ...
Tai-Pan is a 1986 adventure drama film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 novel of the same name.While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out.
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