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Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain.

Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. And he’ll do whatever it takes—including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. But his rival, Quillan Gornt, has other plans. Suddenly caught in a dubious plot involving Soviet spies, Hong Kong’s criminal underground, and the hostile takeover of his company, Dunross holds nothing back in the fight for the Noble House.

Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community, but when the Japanese invade she’s interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends seventeen-year-old Charles, who is half Chinese, and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Meanwhile, forty miles away in Portuguese Macau, thirteen-year-old Sofia’s suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner.

Spring 1939 - Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job — a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for her to marry someone from her own background.

Tom Stewart leaves England just before the Great Depression to seek his fortune and find it running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful, uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. And Matthew Ho is a Chinese entrepreneur facing difficulties and opportunities in the twenty-first century.

Based on a little-known true story from award-winning author Siobhan Daiko comes a tale of love and survival against all the odds. Set in Hong Kong at the start of the Pacific War. In the spring of 1939, dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong.

Le phénomène du thriller taiwanais : les amours interdites d'un futur chef de guerre chinois. En 1936, Luk Pa-Choi, jeune paysan chinois, fuit la guerre civile comme des milliers de ses compatriotes et se réfugie à Hong Kong, alors colonie britannique. Il y retrouve son frère, immigré depuis plusieurs années, qui occupe un poste important au sein de la plus grande triade chinoise, Hong Men. Gagnant aussitôt la confiance de son chef, Luk bâtit peu à peu son royaume.

"Kong Frederiks Korporal" er en spaendende ungdomsbog, der foregår på Gøngehøvdingens tid. Svenskerne har belejret København, og vi følger bønderne og fiskerne i deres farlige sammenstød med den svenske haer. Der fortaelles om nogle yderst dramatiske sejladser, hvor bogens koporal, den 17-årige Morten, i den dybeste nat må manøvrere sin fars fiskerbåd gennem den svenske flådes blokade ind til hovedstaden.

Triads and Turbulence: Once Upon a Time in Northeastern China is an epic tale of conflict, royalties, and love set against the backdrop of an industrial wasteland populated by gangsters and outlaws in Northeastern China. This highly acclaimed novel is a tetralogy inspired by true events, from bloody gangster conflicts to industrial city outcasts, amid Communist China’s rapid development following Deng Xiao Ping’s economic reforms in the 1980s. It is also a story of marginalized individuals entangled in the changing fabrics of the society they live in.

Da Christian 4. fødtes, blev der lagt et horoskop af Tycho Brahe, som var astronom og astrolog.Livet hang sammen dengang, og når skæbnen og stjernerne faldt fra hinanden - for Danmark og for Christian, mente Christian, det måtte hænge sammen med Djævelens tilstedeværelse. I skikkelse af de tre hovedfjender: svenskerne, katolikkerne og heksene. I hans forhold til kvinderne er det heksene, der volder ham de største problemer. Mindet om Aona Nordfra, shamanen eller troldkvinden, som han voldtog som helt ung, er hans hemmelige længsel, og hun står for alt, hvad der er ondt og farligt i verden, alt, hvad han ikke kan magte.

Under rejsen til Norge i 1599 kommer den unge Kong Christian 4. til Vardø, tvillingerigets nordligste forpost mod Rusland. Her i udmarken møder han den smukke Aona Nordfra - sytten år og klog kone eller shaman. Med hjælp fra sine hoffolk tager Christian sig tilrette og voldtager pigen. Men trold kan ikke tæmmes, og hændelsen forfølger kongen resten af hans liv. Aona flygter sydpå. På en af øerne ved Lofoten føder hun - og må efterlade barnet i tilfældighedernes varetægt.

Op af havet stiger en forårsdag i 1615 Aona Nordfra og datteren Erla. Tæt ved Gilleleje. De to kvinder, der er undvegne fanger fra Akershus, bærer begge kongens mærke. Deres mål er Christian IVs smukkeste slot, Frederiksborg, men de har tid. Det er hævn, der driver dem, men endnu mere er det nysgerrighed. Før de når ind bag slottets mure, må de gå mange og lange omveje. Aona slår sig op i den lille storby, København, og Erla tager på en eventyrlig færd rundt om Kap det gode Håb til Ceylon.

On the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II, the disappearance of her uncle Raymond, and whether her grandmother, Emily, was a murderer. Emily’s marriage—three times—to her father’s mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families. But the bickering around the scandal of Emily’s marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army’s invasion of Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941.

Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn’t care less about his job. He’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he’s teaching ESL, just to placate his parents. But he shows up hungover to class, barely stays awake, and prefers to spend his time smoking up until dawn breaks.

Three Wishes in Bardo draws an intimate picture of twentieth-century Hong Kong while telling the story of a typical Hong Kong bright boy and his devoted mother. It is also a story of scientific labor and discovery, where single-mindedness, integrity, talent, and skill rise from the mire of academic sharp-practice and envy. Different strands of the plot weave together to form a climactic ending where all characters’ lives resolve into fulfillment with a touch of humor and true catharsis created from genuine surprise.

In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralph McDonald, feels compelled to retell dramatic events from his youth, ones related to things hidden in the depths of his conscience and in the waters themselves.