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and are the powerful billionaire-founders of Chinese-Filipino business empires. Examples of taipans are: The
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, taipans were foreign-born businessmen who headed large
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Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English",
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The term gained wide currency outside China after the publication of
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This article is about the Cantonese term. For other uses, see
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The term was used to describe the protagonist's family in
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who own or have involvement in various businesses in the
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The first recorded use of the term in English is in the
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Rone Tempest and Christine Courtney (12 April 1994).
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Simon Murray was one of the last British 'taipans.'
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Index

Taipans
Taipan (disambiguation)
Chinese


pinyin
Sidney Lau
Hong Kong
hong
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Swire
Dent & Co.
Canton Register
Chinese-Filipino
business oligarchs
Philippines
López family of Iloilo
Lopez Holdings Corporation
Henry Sy
SM Investments
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines
Ramon Ang
San Miguel Corporation
Lucio Tan
Philippine Airlines
Somerset Maugham
short story
The Taipan
James Clavell
Tai-Pan

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