# The Taipan — On a Chinese Screen character guide

> The Taipan in On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** taipan

**First appearance:** 0052-xlix-the-taipan

## Who they are

A powerful Western merchant and central figure in the treaty port society.

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