Tai-Pan: The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

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Because of his skill and intelligence, he was promoted to Special Intelligence, a branch concerned with counter-espionage.

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Jin-qua – Chinese tea and opium trader, lends Dirk Struan "4million" (approximately 1 million pounds sterling in silver bullion) to get out of debt to Tyler Brock. Tai-Pan means "supreme power" and seadog Dirk Struan's Noble House is the supreme money power on the "godrotting" island. Nonetheless, if you start from a quasi-ignorance of the history of Hong Kong, this book will be able to provide some solid understanding. At the end of the book, it is implied that he is a double, or perhaps even triple agent and that Sevrin is, in fact, an MI6 plot to deceive the Soviets . The De Laurentiis Entertainment Group handled the production and were actively seen battling the Chinese Government and Labor boards over the film during shooting.There is intrigue, violence, romance and tragedy, but this all adds flavor to the epic story of how the British controlled their first stronghold in Asia. Although the film features many characters, it is arguably Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and the owners of two massive (fictional) trading companies who are the main focal points of the story. So truly and consistently terrible is 'Tai-Pan' that it could stand as a textbook example of how not to adapt a historical adventure-romance into a movie". Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were considered too offensive to be filmed as written and considerable changes were made. Casey is charged with putting together a partnership deal with Struan's, a deal which is critical to save Struan's from ruin.

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Readers will relish following the puzzle of this unpromising daughter of the sun god Helios and his wife, Perse, who had negligible use for their child. Anyone seeking to stop them cannot do so without enlisting the aid of Hong Kong's criminal underworld. He is best known for his epic Asian Saga novels, which launched with the 1962 bestseller King Rat, and their televised adaptations. The story's burden is will Struan's legitimate son prove worthy of becoming Tai-Pan, or will his much brighter natural Chinese son, the leader of Hong Kong's anarchist movement? The American-Chinese scientist who defected to China and helped develop the first atom bomb for China, Dr.But he is an honest businessman according to the rules that he accepts, and he does not engage in illegal activities. This is a magnificent saga of the founding of Hong Kong by powerful British trading interests, which manipulate the British government towards establishing Hong Kong as Britain's trading outpost in the Far East.

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Alvin Rabushka of the Hoover Institution said that the novel so well depicted Hong Kong that non-experts would not notice its accuracy. Throughout the novel, both men seek to destroy each other in matters of business and personal affairs. He served in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver Chinatown, before transferring to Hong Kong.Struan struggles to combine the best traits of the British democratic system and the wisdom of China, of which he notes, "the Chinese are a wise smart people, even if they don't build good cannons like Europeans. In this novel Clavell explains the opium trade, and how it came to be an evil that was nevertheless central to the China trade in these times. But the whole last third of the novel is compacted of obligatory scenes that hook the reader who will be drawn into this fantasy world like white fumes into a joss pipe. Meanwhile, Chinese communists, Taiwanese nationalists, and Soviet spies illegally vie for influence in Hong Kong while the British government seeks to prevent their actions. He was sent to Hong Kong from mainland China at age 6, won a scholarship to an English public school at age 12, and two years later in 1939 moved to Canada because of the war.