Tai-Pan
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 590
Subjects: Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.
Description: From the Publisher: 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!