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Tai-Pan is a Cantonese term for the leader of a Hong, a western trading company operating in China or Hong Kong in the 19th century.
Tai-Pan or Taipan may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment:
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Tai-Pan (novel), a novel by James Clavell
- Tai-Pan (film), a 1986 film based on Clavell's novel
- "Taipan", a song by band Cold Chisel from their 1982 album Circus Animals
- "The Taipan", a short story by W Somerset Maugham
- Taipan!, a computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80
- Taipan, new name for the Thrillseeker (roller coaster)
Ships:
- HMAS Taipan, a Second World War Royal Australian Navy auxiliary vessel
- Taipan Catamarans, high performance sailing catamarans made in Australia
- Taipan 28, a sailing yacht or sloop
- MV Taipan, a container ship freed in the Action of 5 April 2010 from Somali pirates
Other uses:
- Taipan, a large Australian snake
- Cairns Taipans, an Australasian National Basketball League team
- Tai-Pan or Albert Cheng, a radio commentator-turned-politician in Hong Kong
- Taipan, Australian Defence Force name for NH90 helicopter
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".
A tai-pan (, literally 'top class', or 'big shot') is a senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China or Hong Kong.
Tai-Pan is a 1986 film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 eponymous novel. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out. Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were considered too offensive to be filmed as written and considerable changes were made.
The De Laurentiis Entertainment Group handled the production and were actively seen battling the Chinese Government and Labor boards over the film during shooting. The results fared poorly at the box office and in critical reviews. Duke believed that a mini-series à la Shōgun or Noble House would have been a far superior means of covering the complexity of Clavell's novel.