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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.
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.
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.
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King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore.
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.
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.