By James Clavell
It is the early nineteenth century, while eu investors and adventurers first started to penetrate the forbidding chinese language mainland. And it really is during this intriguing time and unique position colossal of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, units out to show the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable castle of British strength, and to make himself preferrred ruler…Tai-Pan!
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