TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clavell,James
TI  - Tai-Pan: the epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong 
SN  - 034020446x(pbk.)
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Coronet Paperback
KW  - British
KW  - China
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Hong Kong (China)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
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!""--P. [4] of cover
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