Culum Struan is a character in the James Clavell novels Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin. He is the son of Dirk Struan, tai-pan of Struan's Trading Company. In the novel, he marries Tess Brock. She is the son of Tyler Brock, founder of Brock & Son's Trading Company and main rival to his father. James Clavell in 1986 James Clavell (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle) (October 10, 1924 – September 7, 1994) was a novelist and screenwriter, famous for books such as Shogun and films such as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love. ... A tai-pan (大班) was a foreign businessman doing business in China or Hong Kong in the 19th century. ... Gai-Jin (Japanese 外人, Foreigner) is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga. ... Dirk Struan, main character of James Clavells novel Tai-Pan, is the trade leader in Hong Kong and chief of The Noble House. ... The Struan family and company (also called the Noble House in Clavells novels) is a fictional family featuring heavily in many of the Asian Saga novels by writer James Clavell. ... Tess Struan is a character in the James Clavell novels Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin. ...
the love story of Dirk Struan and May-may in Tai-Pan; the Romeo and Juliet romance between CulumStruan and Tess Brock in Tai-Pan; the love between the English sea captain John Blackthorne and his interpreter Lady Mariko in...
Sir Cordon Chen was compradore to Dirk's son, CulumStruan." "They were half-brothers weren't they?" "So the legend goes." "Ah yes, legends-the stuff we feed on.
CulumStruan won't control the Jockey Club vote much longer, and if his son and heir kicks the bucket too, well then,...
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