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Tai-pan

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Taipan (corporate title).

A taipan (Chinese: 大班; pinyin: dà bān; Sidney Lau: daaibaan, literally "top class"), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in mainland China or Hong Kong. The term Taipan also refers to the mixed political, social, and business oligarch families in the Philippines.