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 War. It is the second book in Clavell's Asian

Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer, filmmaker and a British Army officer during the Second World War. He is best known for his Asian Saga novels