Most of the actions take place over the course of one week in August 1963, as a typhoon is closing in on Hong Kong. Another’s because this is a piratical society with very few curbs so you can get away with all sorts of vengeances. When you hate you hate with all your heart. Another’s because hatreds here go back generations and have been nurtured for generations. One reason’s because we’re such a closely knit society, very interrelated, and everyone knows everyone else-and almost all their secrets. It is later discovered that the true reason of their century-long relationship is a triad that had asked the Noble House of a huge (and dangerous) favor to provide sanction and financial succor to a Boxer Rebellion insurgent against the Qing Dynasty. Dirk Struan’s illegitimate marriage to a woman in the Chen clan had perpetually interlinked the English family with the Chinese by ownership and blood. One a night of torrential rain in 1960, Alastair Struan, the current taipan (big boss, ultimate ruler) of the Noble House, a trading and finance company that is the main artery of the colony’s economy, confers the title of taipan on Ian Dunross Struan he must take an oath to uphold the traditions and oaths established by the first taipan and founder of Noble House, Dirk Struan, the mightiest trader in China from the 19th century. ” Īs the title suggests, Noble House is set in Hong Kong, in 1960s, with a complex and engaging tale tying together a multitude of disparate elements: business and political intrigues, kidnapping, murder, espionage, financial double-dealing, and natural disaster. There’s always a crisis-flood fire, mud slide, boom, scandal, business opportunity, funeral, banquet or cocktail party for visiting VIPs-or some disaster. People are always arriving, leaving, friends, business people. If you live here there’s never enough time, whatever you work.
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