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   What does taipan mean?

   • A taipan (Chinese: 大 班; pinyin: dà bān; Sidney Lau: daai6baan1, literally "top class" ), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in mainland China or Hong Kong.

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   Is Tai-Pan a true story?

   • 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 Saga, and the first to feature the fictional Struan family.

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   What do Taipans eat?

   • A 2016 genetic analysis showed that the speckled brown snake (Pseudonaja guttata) was an early offshoot of a lineage giving rise to the taipans, with the Central Ranges taipan being an offshoot of the common ancestor of the inland and coastal taipans. [ 6 ] Their diet consists primarily of small mammals, especially rats and bandicoots.

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   When did taipan come out?

   • The term gained wide currency outside China after the publication of Somerset Maugham 's 1922 short story "The Taipan" and James Clavell 's 1966 novel Tai-Pan, and was film adapted in 1986, directed by Daryl Duke. The term was used to describe the protagonist's family in Empire of the Sun.

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   What color is a taipan?

   • Taipans range in colour from beige to gray and pale brown to dark brown. Some taipans also experience seasonal colour changes. The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) is the largest Australian elapid. Its maximum length is 2.9 metres (9.5 feet); however, most range between 1.8 and 2.4 metres (6 and 8 feet) in length.

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   What is the time period of Tai-Pan?

   • Time period of Tai-Pan is 1841+. Dirk is the leader/owner (Tai-Pan) of The Noble House. It is a trading company - trading tea, silks, opium and many other things. The colony suffers from Malaria, which at that time was thought to come from bad air. The Chinese woman he loves comes down with Malaria and he hunts down a cure. Go ahead, read it.

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   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 Saga, and the first to feature the fictional Struan family.

   • Author: James Clavell

   • Publish Year: 1966

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   A taipan (Chinese: 大 班; pinyin: dà bān; Sidney Lau: daai6baan1, [1] literally "top class" [2]), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in mainland China or Hong Kong.

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   Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men.

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   Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Three species are recognised, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. Taipans are some of the deadliest known snakes.

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   Oct 20, 2024 · Taipan, any of three species of highly venomous snakes (family Elapidae) found in Australia and New Guinea. The genus comprises the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), the fierce snake (O. microlepidotus, the world’s most toxic terrestrial snake), and the Central Ranges taipan (O. temporalis).

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   Summary. The novel is set in Hong Kong, following the British victory in the first Opium War and the seizure of the island. The main characters are Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and owners of rival trading companies.

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    The Asian Saga is a series of six novels written by James Clavell between 1962 and 1993. The novels all center on Europeans in Asia, and together they explore the impact on East and West of the meeting of these two distinct civilizations.