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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.
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after ShÅgun 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".
His next novel, Tai-Pan (1966), was a fictional account of Jardine Matheson's successful career in Hong Kong, [29] as told via the character who was to become Clavell's heroic archetype, Dirk Struan. [30] Struan's descendants were characters in almost all of his following books. Tai-Pan was adapted as a movie in 1986.
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.
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
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.
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 ...
Vagrant Star – an East Indiaman in which Struan and Brock met prior to the events in Tai-pan; USS Tallahatchie County – U.S. Navy submarine tender in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986; HMS Téméraire – Polaris nuclear submarine, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971; USS Thomas Jefferson – Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson ...