Tai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium...
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Tai-Pan is a 1986 adventure drama film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 novel of the same name. While many of the same characters...
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Asian Saga (section List of tai-pans of Struan's)
needed] 1st tai-pan: Dirk Struan, 1828–1841 2nd tai-pan: Culum Struan, 1841–1862 3rd tai-pan: Sir Lochlin Struan, 1862–1873?? 4th tai-pan: Dirk Dunross...
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Taipan (corporate title) (redirect from Tai pan)
bān; Sidney Lau: daai6baan1, literally "top class"), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating...
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is set in 1963 and serves as a sequel to Clavell's novel Tai-Pan. Ian Dunross, the 10th tai-pan of Struan's and a descendant of founder Dirk Struan, struggles...
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enabled him to spend two years researching and then writing what became Tai-Pan (1966). It was a huge best-seller, and Clavell sold the film rights for...
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Taipan (disambiguation) (redirect from Tai-Pan (disambiguation))
Australian venomous snake. Taipan or Tai-Pan may also refer to: Tai-Pan (novel), a 1966 novel by James Clavell Tai-Pan (film), a 1986 film based on Clavell's...
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last to be published. Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chronicles the adventures of Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess...
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Noble House featuring connections to Shōgun and another Clavell work, Tai-Pan. For the miniseries, the timeframe of the novel was changed; Clavell's...
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1966 novel Tai-Pan. The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as "supreme leader", and Struan is the Tai-pan or head of his...
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Tai-pan from 1970 (aged 31) to 1975 and the 6th Keswick to be Tai-pan of the company, is chairman emeritus. His brother, Simon, was the company's Tai-pan...
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Tehran, events dramatised in Ken Follett's novel On Wings of Eagles. When tai-pan Ian Dunross learned in Noble House that the North Sea may soon be wide...
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Clavell's later Asian Saga novels, Gai-Jin (which features Malcolm Struan the Tai-Pan heir to the Noble House of Struan's) mentions that Blackthorne later built...
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Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along...
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Love in which she starred. Her other roles in the late 1980s included Tai-Pan (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). During the 1990s, she co-starred...
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Clavell's Tai-Pan is a board game published by FASA in 1981 that is based on the best-selling 1966 novel Tai-Pan by James Clavell. Set in the 1830s, Tai Pan is...
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combined with Zheng Fen ("Competing for Points"). It is also marketed as Tai-Pan in Dutch. Tichu was invented by Urs Hostettler and originally released...
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region since 1855 and in particular the conglomerate Jardine Matheson. As tai-pans of Jardine Matheson & Company, the Keswick family have at some time been...
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California State University, Northridge. Her first Hollywood movie was Tai-Pan, filmed on location in China. In 1985 she appeared in the U.S. television...
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paperback) ISBN 0-440-08721-X (US) – ISBN 0-340-20316-1 (UK) OCLC 9326267 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 19 LC Class PS3553.L365 S5 1975 Followed by Tai-Pan ...
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Tyler Brock (1787–1863?) is a fictional character in the novel Tai-Pan. He is the Tai-pan, or "supreme leader" of Brock & Sons Trading Company, and the...
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groups being Dai, Thais, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan),Tai Lai (Shanni), Lao, Tai Ahom, Tai Meitei and Northern Thai peoples. The Tai are scattered through much of...
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Dirk Struan in an expensive adaptation of the James Clavell best-seller Tai-Pan but the project was cancelled before filming. Instead he made the movie...
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in a state". Gilded Age Russian oligarchs Ukrainian oligarchs Oligarchy Tai-pan Chaebol Zaibatsu Guriev, Sergei; Rachinsky, Andrei (2005). "The role of...
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Young Doctors in Love Soap Cameos 1986 Knights of the City Brooke 1986 Tai-Pan Shevaun Tillman 1988 Monkey Shines Linda Aikman 1989 Steel Magnolias Nancy-Beth...
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February 1967). "Anderson to direct 'tai-pan'". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 155675238. Martin, B. (3 July 1968). "'Tai-pan' role for McGoohan". Los Angeles...
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Sandwich bread (redirect from Pan bread)
Ludhiana Punjab, India, produces a product called Super Sandwich Bread. Tai Pan Bread and Cakes Co. produces sandwich bread in Hong Kong. Mass-produced...
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really works." John Guillermin had been hoping to direct a version of Tai Pan with Sean Connery but when that project was unable to be financed, he moved...
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some uncredited work on the film Ashanti and wrote an unused script for Tai Pan to star Steve McQueen. He also wrote a biopic of General Stilwell for Martin...
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Gloria Tatlock Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks as Elizabeth McGraw Joan Chen in Tai-Pan as May–May Brigitte Nielsen in Cobra as Ingrid Knudsen Ally Sheedy in Blue...
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