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| Original Title: | Tai-Pan |
| ISBN: | 0440184622 (ISBN13: 9780440184621) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Saga: Chronological Order #2, Asian Saga: Publication Order #2 |
| Setting: | Hong Kong,1841 |
James Clavell
Paperback | Pages: 734 pages Rating: 4.27 | 43096 Users | 949 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tai-Pan (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #2) |
| Author | : | James Clavell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Reprint |
| Pages | : | Pages: 734 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2009 by Dell (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. China. Adventure. Asia. Classics |
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An Alternate Cover of this edition can be found here. 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.Rating Epithetical Books Tai-Pan (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #2)
Ratings: 4.27 From 43096 Users | 949 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books Tai-Pan (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #2)
I'll update a review later when I'm not sleep deprived but to summarize my thoughts. I expected moreWhat can I say about Tai-Pan? Is it really a Historical novel? Is it a Alternative History? These are the two questions I keep asking myself while working my way through the late James Clavells Asian saga, which for your consideration are the following:Shogun (1600)Tai-Pan (1841)Gai-Jin (1862)King Rat(1945)Noble House(1963)Whirlwind(1979) Before joining Goodreads, I had already read Shogun, so you, my friendly reader, do not have the luxury of a review of that as comparison, but I believe that
***MOVIE ADDENDUM ADDED SEPT 13th, 2014***Joss was a Chinese word that meant Luck and Fate and God and the devil combined. Hong Kong was just a cluster of fishing villages when the English traders arrived in 1841. The port quickly proved a safe haven to ships even impervious to Typhoons.Dirk Lochlin Struan is a Scotsman who has spent a good part of his adult life in the orient amassing a fleet of clipper ships and a great fortune. He is called the Tai-Pan. He has made his own joss by being
One absolutely brilliant book, but I didn't expect this ending, something similar yes, but the way it ended - NO!! It broke my heart a little bit and I cried, usually this would ruin the book for me, but this one was a masterpiece and I can't say even one bad thing about it.There were so many great characters especially Dirk and his Mei Mei, they were so well suited,yin and yang. Some books and characters fade with time, but I'm not sure I will ever forget those two. This is a book I will be
An outstanding historical saga and my first exposure to James Clavell. On the strength of this, I'll be sure to read the rest of his work.TAI-PAN is epic in scope, a novel whose background is the inception of Hong Kong by the British, circa 1841. Into these turbulent times comes a tail of rival opium smugglers, piracy, betrayal, love, hatred, incest, murder, friendship and natural disasters. Pretty much everything is here, giving this the flavour of a historical saga of old with a distinctly
This book is an absolute masterpiece! Every sentence, every word was on its right place. The portraits of the characters were unique, intriguing, perfectly built and there wasnt even a moment, when the plot was boring. I cant even think of a flaw.I loved the story of the hatred between the rivals Dirk and Brok and the way their children are included in it, the love between Dirk and Mei-Mei, the clash of different cultures and political views and of course the cruel fight for the title Tai-Pan.
Having read Shogun and loved it, I decided to read 'em all. Let me tell you what Tai-Pan is like!Ok, imagine Shogun was dead, gone, and blown to bits, and those bits were scattered across a bleak and rugged junkyard that stretches from horizon to horizon. This is what Tai-Pan is like. In this junkyard, there are no seagulls, no weeds, and no sunlight. There are no plot arcs here, no pieces of memorable dialog, and no real characters. The junkyard is haunted by moaning horrors, things that were
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