Tai-Pan

We hosted the Tai-Pan picnic at our house on Saturday.

Picnic! eddvick 2008

- Katie and I hosted the Tai-Pan Writers Night here last night.

So this is Sunday eddvick 2008

I'm sitting out on panels this time to hang with Katie more and to help sit the Foolscap table (and the Tai-Pan table if they can use me).

My Orycon Schedule eddvick 2008

They cast her as a concubine in the 1986 film "Tai-Pan," an adaptation of the James Clavell novel and one of the first Western feature films to shoot in post-1949 China.

The Ingenue Grows Up 2008

Borne on the waves in the middle distance, surfers were heading towards a shore which they would never reach, Beyond them, a beautiful passenger clipper which any travel agent would recognize instantly as Tsung Sea-Space Corporation's Tai-Pan was racing along the horizon under a full spread of sail.

2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

There was no job, none that the Tai-Pan could offer him, that he would accept.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

Then the Tai-Pan were leaving this summer for good and passing over Tai-Pan to Robb — then to Culum in a year.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

“I quite understand, Tai-Pan,” she said knowingly.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

“I think it would be wise, Tai-Pan, as an added precaution, to have watchmen on your house too,” Gordon said.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

In many ways, Tai-Pan, you are more Chinese than I.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966