House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China's Most Powerful Company
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House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China's Most Powerful Company
By (Author) Eva Dou
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
8th April 2025
14th January 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of specific companies / corporate history
Geopolitics
384.0951
Physical Properties
Hardback
448
Width 158mm, Height 236mm, Spine 40mm
700g
Description
The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world
'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Essential reading' Chris Miller, author of Chip WarOn the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world's most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the U.S.-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the international spotlight.In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei's reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei and how he built a sprawling corporate empire - one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. The book dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed and national glory that Huawei helped to build - and that has also ensnared it.Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei tells an epic story of familial and political intrigue that presents a fresh window on China's rise from third-world country to U.S. rival, and shines a clarifying light on the security considerations that keep world leaders up at night.House of Huawei holds a mirror up to one of the world's most mysterious companies as never before.Reviews
A gripping read charting the ascent of Huawei, China's tech powerhouse. Meticulously reported, Eva Dou's narrative combines geopolitics, spying and technological innovation with the human story of a former People's Liberation Army engineer who became a global business titan * Lionel Barber *
Author Bio
Eva Dou is the Washington Post's China business and economy correspondent. A Detroit native, she previously spent seven years reporting on politics and technology for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing and Taipei, Taiwan. She lives in Washington D.C.
