Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

A delicious and enthralling novel:

Tai-Pan is another beautifully written novel by James Clavell. His characters come alive in this intricate novel. The reader follows the witnesses of the beginning of Hong Kong. His accuracy in Chinese culture is amazing and makes the book an even better read. The characters are beautifully conjured and moving. The plot is suspenseful and breathtaking. The storyline takes us through the beginning of Hong Kong and deep into the heartaches and troubles of life in a developing colony. Tai-Pan is a gripping... more info

A "GODROTTING" GOOD READ!:

Tai-Pan is James Clavell's second published novel and is loosely based on the history of Jardine Matheson. This is my favorite in Clavell's "Asian Saga." The setting is Hong Kong in 1841. The British have just secured the island from the Chinese following the Treaty of Cheupi and Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (supreme leader) of the Noble House, has staked his life and his company's future there. Struan and the other China traders smuggle opium into China to trade for bullion used to buy tea for England. Together,... more info

Magnificent Kick-Off to Clavell's Asian Saga:

James Clavell began his Asian Saga with "Tai-Pan," and in doing so brought the Far East to life in an unparalleled fashion.

"Tai-Pan" tells the story of Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan ("Supreme Leader") of Struan's, more popularly known as the Noble House. First in everything (money, influence, panache, daring, etc.), the Noble House has tied its future to the rise of Hong Kong, which is "founded" in the book's first chapter.

Struan, who has founded the Noble House with the vast fortune he built as an opium... more info

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