book cover of Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong by James Clavell

Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong

Novel, Historical fiction by James Clavell

Blurb

It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!



From the Trade Paperback edition.

First Published

1966

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