Jin-Qua, is a character in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan. His full Chinese name is Chen-tse Jin Arn. Jin-Qua was a merchant who possessed a monopoly on all the foreign trade in China during the early 19th century. With the arrival of the British merchants and the establishment of Hong Kong, he began cultivating a relationship with Dirk Struan, the tai-pan of the Noble House, the chief trading company in Hong Kong. He arranged for two of his own descendants to become Struan's misstresses. The first, Kai-sung, was Jin-Qua's daughter. She was the mother by Dirk Struan of Gordon Chen.