TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clavell,James
TI  - Tai-Pan: The epic novel of Hong Kong 
SN  - 034020446X
PY  - 1981///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Coronet Books, Hodder and Stoughton
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "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!"
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