Gordon Chen is a character in the James Clavell novels Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin. He is the illegitimate son of Dirk Struan, founder of Struan's Trading Company. Through a deal made between Dirk Struan and Gordon Chen's grandfather, Jin-qua, he became the first compradore of Struan's. He is also known as Illustrious Chen for his great wealth and social status among the native Chinese people of Hong Kong. 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. ... Jin-qua, is a character in James Clavells novel Tai-Pan. ...
GordonChen is a character in the James Clavell Asian Saga novels Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin.
Chen became the leader of the Hong Kong Triads at a very young age and, partly due to financial help from his father and also due to running protection rackets, became the richest man in Hong Kong.
Chen planned on placing spies on Struan's ships, and by the time of the novel Gai-Jin, his spies had been placed among the Chinese servants of important European officials in Japan.
Gordon T; Nadziejko C; Chen LC; Schlesinger R. "Effects of concentrated ambient particles in rats and hamsters: an exploratory study [In Process Citation]".
Gordon T; Galdanes K. "Factors contributing to the acute and subchronic adverse respiratory effects of machining fluid aerosols in guinea pigs".
Gordon T. "Purity of catalase preparations: contamination by endotoxin and its role in the inhibition of airway inflammation".
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