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Name: Tai-Pan

Author: James Clavell
Year: 1966
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction, Adventure, Classic
Cultures: China, Asia

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ISBNs:
9780440184621
0440184622

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.

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