Imagine oneself in a world completely different from ones where the language, culture, people, and landscape is different. James Clavell made this possible with a stroke of a pen. Creating multiple works depicting conflicts and resolutions between eastern and western civilizations in a series known as the asian saga. In his masterworks, James Clavell showed the conflicts and resolutions in western and eastern civilizations to the betterment of the world as seen through the novels Shogun, Tai-panpan, and Gai-Jin.
The first book in the asian saga is Shogun also known as the Book of Japan, published in 1975. Starts off around the year 1600 with Europe just starting to explore Asia and other far off lands in exchange for power and wealth.
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Which is the novel “Tai-Pan”, Between the two novels they are quite alike ,but also very different. In one example “Tai-Pan” is set in the year 1841 at least a 241 year difference and took place in China rather than “Shogun” which is set in the year 1600 and took place in feudal Japan. Another difference in the two novels is that in “Shogun” the characters slowing start to work together for the betterment of japan, but in “Tai-Pan” the two main characters have a bitter rivalry and want to see to each others destruction. Through between the novels there are some similarities like in “Shogun” Blackthorne has a avid love for the sea just like the two main characters in “Tai-Pan”. Another similarity between the two books is that in “Shogun” the five warlords are fighting amongst each other for land and power while in “Tai-pan” Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock are fight each other due a bitter rivalry that started early into the …show more content…
He became a clandestine opium smuggler for other China traders. He relentlessly confiscated more pirate ships. Using them to make dangerous illicit opium runs up the China coast, he made even greater profits.
In 1834, free trade reform advocates succeeded in ending the monopoly of the British East India Company...Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock became merchant princes. Their armed fleets expanded and bitter rivalry honed their enmity even keener.” (Wikipedia)
One of the main resolutions of “Tai-pan” is the creation of Struan & Company or The Noble House which combined the east and west member into a unity and disrupted outside conception that chinese were hostile people and that european people only wanted money and power. With the creation of the noble house Dirk is creating his own way of living by taking what he likes from both cultures and making his own way of living.
Dirk Struan embodies Clavell's concept of the Hero whose vision for a proper form of cultural integration between East and West finds Dirk throwing off much of what he disliked of both Chinese and European society, yet fusing all that he does admire into a new way of
The first book in the asian saga is Shogun also known as the Book of Japan, published in 1975. Starts off around the year 1600 with Europe just starting to explore Asia and other far off lands in exchange for power and wealth.
“Beginning …show more content…
Which is the novel “Tai-Pan”, Between the two novels they are quite alike ,but also very different. In one example “Tai-Pan” is set in the year 1841 at least a 241 year difference and took place in China rather than “Shogun” which is set in the year 1600 and took place in feudal Japan. Another difference in the two novels is that in “Shogun” the characters slowing start to work together for the betterment of japan, but in “Tai-Pan” the two main characters have a bitter rivalry and want to see to each others destruction. Through between the novels there are some similarities like in “Shogun” Blackthorne has a avid love for the sea just like the two main characters in “Tai-Pan”. Another similarity between the two books is that in “Shogun” the five warlords are fighting amongst each other for land and power while in “Tai-pan” Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock are fight each other due a bitter rivalry that started early into the …show more content…
He became a clandestine opium smuggler for other China traders. He relentlessly confiscated more pirate ships. Using them to make dangerous illicit opium runs up the China coast, he made even greater profits.
In 1834, free trade reform advocates succeeded in ending the monopoly of the British East India Company...Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock became merchant princes. Their armed fleets expanded and bitter rivalry honed their enmity even keener.” (Wikipedia)
One of the main resolutions of “Tai-pan” is the creation of Struan & Company or The Noble House which combined the east and west member into a unity and disrupted outside conception that chinese were hostile people and that european people only wanted money and power. With the creation of the noble house Dirk is creating his own way of living by taking what he likes from both cultures and making his own way of living.
Dirk Struan embodies Clavell's concept of the Hero whose vision for a proper form of cultural integration between East and West finds Dirk throwing off much of what he disliked of both Chinese and European society, yet fusing all that he does admire into a new way of