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...Tai-Pan, Clavell...
...TAI-PAN by James Clavell. 590 pages. Atheneum...
...Hong Kong. The plague. War junks. Tongs. China clippers sailing on the tide (and on nearly every page). May-may, a Chinese concubine who gargles baby urine. Gorth Brock, a bastardo degenerado. Wolfgang Mauss. Shevaun. The priapic painter Aristotle Quance. Redhaired, green-eyed, sharkproof Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (Supreme Leader) of The Noble House, trader in poppies, mayhem...
...moment we all become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...Corps can expect more such fusses as it tries to aid the world's under developed lands. But even the case of Margery Michelmore contained encouraging signs. Whatever her indiscretion, Margery wrote without malice, reporting only what she had seen-and plenty of Nigerians realized it. Commented Columnist Tai Solarin in the Lagos Daily Times: "If she was out to ridicule the country, she would be intelligent enough to protect her stings with an envelope. But what she did was a jotting down on a postcard of what she saw. She was sure she was not discovering something...