James Clavell

Tai-Pan

An ambitious trader builds a commercial empire in colonial China amid competing powers

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James Clavell

James Clavell was a British-Australian author whose Asian Saga novels brought feudal Japan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia to enormous popular readership. Shogun, his novel about a shipwrecked English sailor in sixteenth-century Japan, became one of the most successful novels of the 1970s.

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