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Tai-Pan starts its story in 1841 with the founding of Hong Kong. The main character Dirk Struan, otherwise known as Tai-Pan, is a China Trader and head of The Noble House, the leading trading company in the orient at that time. Based on real history, it tells a very exciting and interesting tale of the cut-throat competition between the China Traders at that time. They put everything on the line each trading season. They smuggle opium, trade in tea, silks, and anything else that can show a profit. The main rival of Dirk Struan is Tyler Brock, an obsessed man that would do absolutely anything to bring down the Noble House. The book is full of interesting characters, suach as: May May, Struan's Chinese mistress, a collection of China Traders, the Govenor, Military and Naval men, and a host of others. This book is part of a series of historically based fiction books that compliment each other to form a sort of larger story over a very wide time frame. Shogun, Noble House, King Rat, Whirlwind, and Gai-Jin are the other books that complete James Clavell's Asian Saga.Read full review