Foreseeing this disaster,īrock buys his i.o.u.'s. Their London bank collapses, with Dirk overextended in tea, opium, ships and paper. Tai-Pan's confidence in his brother Robb as a financial adviser is misplaced. To take over and is spoiling for a fight.
His implacable foe, Brock, egged on by Brock's bestial son, Gorth, schemes The book takes its title from the English big-shot (or Tai-Pan) Dirk Struari.ĭirk holds the upper hand, heads the Noble House, is the one to tell Longstaff, civilian in charge, what to tell the Chinese and what to tell English admirals and generals. In the foreground are the greedy dealers in tea and opium: a couple of deadly foes from England and anĪmerican. The Chinaman are turned most freely into second-rank characters in James Clavell's long-drawn-out novel of those turbulent days. Their project eventually proved successful, however, and there, today to testify to it eloquently, are the magnificent harbor, theĬolorful waterfront, the teeming streets, the facades of rival imperialisms and the lookout on the Red mainland.Īt the start, Hong Kong was a miserable, fever-ridden spot not good enough even for a cow pasture, except in the opinion of a merchant with a passion for trade and a seaman's calculating eye for a safe berth for ships. The one (in theory) for getting something of too little worth, the other for getting too little for it.
Only a few years later both were dismissed from their posts, N 1841, an Englishman and a Chinaman worked together to secure English rights to the Chinese island of Hong Kong. ROGERS Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong by James Clavell
Complete With Scrutable Orientals By W.G.
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