description: 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.
language: English
title: James Clavell's Tai-Pan.
titlecomplete: James Clavell's Tai-Pan.
genres: China, Adventure, Classics, Historical, Japan, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 51396
places: Hong Kong
series: Asian Saga: Publication Order, Asian Saga: Chronological Order
publisher: Delacorte Press