Taipan (corporate title)
Term for foreign-born businesspeople in China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Cantonese term. For other uses, see Taipan (disambiguation).
A taipan (Chinese: 大班; pinyin: dà bān; Sidney Lau: daai6baan1,[1] literally "top class"[2]), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in mainland China or Hong Kong.