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It is the early nineteenth century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Struan, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler Tai-Pan!
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It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos. An arrogant sixteen-year-old boy has inherited the title of Shogun, the overlord of Japan, but he is vulnerable. Rival factions plan to destroy him and seize power using the isolated Emperor as a puppet. In Yokohama, the gai-jin - the hated foreigners - seek