In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.

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This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient. If you're lucky, you can start dreaming about a book, and if you're very lucky, you want to wake up. Meanwhile, Chinese communists, Taiwanese nationalists, and Soviet spies illegally vie for influence in Hong Kong while the British government seeks to prevent their actions. Wang Chu could not dress himself for his nails were four inches long and protected with jeweled sheaths.

As tai-pan of Struan's, he must fulfill the request, whether legal or illegal, to anyone who presents one of the half coins that were initially split by Dirk Struan and the trader Jin Qua, serving as repayment for the latter's loan of silver.

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Gornt schemes to persuade millionaire Lincoln Bartlett to partner with him, rather than with Dunross.

Orlanda Ramos: the half-Portuguese, half-Chinese Orlanda Ramos was given to Quillan Gornt as mu-jai, a gift given by a debtor (her father) to his creditor (Gornt) to settle his account. Civilization Clash) “The Manchus think our ideas—Christianity, Parliament, voting, and above all, equality before the law and a jury system—are revolutionary and dangerous and evil. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out.

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There is intrigue, violence, romance and tragedy, but this all adds flavor to the epic story of how the British controlled their first stronghold in Asia. The big set-pieces—the fire on the boat and the landslide—were closely modeled on real events (the Jumbo Floating Restaurant fire in 1971 and the Kotewall Road disaster in 1972). Anyone who presented a half-coin to the Tai-pan of the Noble House must be granted whatever he asked, whether legal or illegal. Because of his skill and intelligence, he was promoted to Special Intelligence, a branch concerned with counter-espionage.The novel is over a thousand pages long, and contains dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. I regret now having brushed away the name of this author, solely on the basis of my annoyance towards the “I want to learn Japanese because of the Shogun” stereotype that half my 1st year colleagues were throwing around.