Title: Tai-Pan (Asian Saga
Subtitle: Chronological Order #2)
First published: 1966
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!"--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: 19th century, British, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Hong kong (china), fiction, Fiction, general
Places: China, Hong Kong (China)
Time periods: 19th century