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Tai-Pan by James Clavell: A Comprehensive Literary and Historical Guide
"Tai-Pan by James Clavell is a sweeping 1966 historical epic that plunges readers into the volatile founding of British Hong Kong in 1841, anchoring its sprawling narrative on the ambitions of master merchant Dirk Struan and the complex collision of Western imperialism and Qing Dynasty China. Introduction to James Clavell's Asian Saga and Tai-Pan Published in 1966, Tai-Pan stands as the second published novel—and the second chronologically—in James Clavell’s famous Asian Saga. While Shōgun (published in 1975) explored feudal Japan, Tai-Pan shifts the geopolitical lens to the South China Sea immediately following the First Opium Treaty of Nanki..."
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