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2. Tai-Pan (film) - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Dirk Struan - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Tai-Pan (novel) - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Noble House (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Despite being the most powerful Hong Kong trading company, Struan & Company (the Noble House) is in trouble. Ian Dunross (Pierce Brosnan) is appointed as tai-pan of Struan’s and the inherited legacy of intense rivalry and hatred between him and Quillan Gornt (John Rhys-Davies) and his company Rothwell-Gornt reaches its highest level.

6. Noble House (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Noble House is set in 1963 and serves as a sequel to Clavell's novel Tai-Pan. Ian Dunross, the 10th tai-pan of Struan's and a descendant of founder Dirk Struan, struggles to rescue the company from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To this end, he seeks partnership with American millionaire Lincoln Bartlett, while ...

7. Tyler Brock - Wikipedia

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   Tyler Brock (1787–1863?) is a fictional character in the 1966 novel Tai-Pan. He is the Tai-pan, or "supreme leader" of Brock & Sons Trading Company, and the novel's antagonist. He is married to Liza Brock and has several children, including his sons Gorth, Morgan and Tom, and daughters Tess and Elizabeth.

8. Asian Saga - Wikipedia

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   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".

9. Taipan (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Tai-Pan, a 1966 novel by James Clavell Tai-Pan, a 1986 film based on Clavell's novel "Taipan", a song from the album Circus Animals (1982) by the Australian band Cold Chisel; Taipan, the new name for the Thrillseeker (roller coaster) Taipan!, a computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80 "The Taipan", a 1922 short story by W. Somerset Maugham