ADVANCE PRAISE FOR HOUSE OF HUAWEI
In House of Huawei, Eva Dou uncovers how Huawei has become China s most successful tech company and a lightning rod for geopolitical competition. Based on unique interviews and deep research into the company s history, House of Huawei provides the most in-depth account of Huawei s rise and its complex and controversial connections to China s security state. House of Huawei is essential reading for understanding China s tech sector and the China-US tech competition.
Chris Miller, author of Chip War
A groundbreaking work on China s most important company. More than online shopping or video apps, the Communist Party is obsessed with telecommunications networks, semiconductors, and surveillance systems. At last we have a book that unveils Huawei s deepest mysteries.
Dan Wang, fellow at Yale Law School s Paul Tsai China Center
Eva Dou s House of Huawei is an extraordinary feat of both reporting and historical research, providing an unprecedented look inside one of the world s most important companies. Huawei is now a central player in the technological contest between the US and China, and this book is a fascinating account of how it became so powerful and so controversial.
Matthew Campbell, co-author of Dead in the Water
A revelatory deep dive into the company that sparked the US-China battle for technological supremacy. Vividly written, exhaustively researched, and packed with riveting inside-the-room details, House of Huawei is the most comprehensive account yet of China s leading tech giant. An indispensable resource for understanding Chinese state capitalism and how it fuels geopolitical competition.
Edward Fishman, senior research scholar at Columbia University and author of Chokepoints
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, former editor of the Financial Times
In House of Huawei, journalist Eva Dou has written a fascinating and sweeping history of the company and the key individuals behind the firm s success. Unlike most contemporary accounts of the company and its relationship to the Chinese government, [Dou s narrative draws] out the contradictions in Huawei s status as a reluctant national champion that founder Ren Zhengfei once complained was not trusted by either the Chinese or the US government. Dou provides a particularly rich story fabric that captures the company s complex evolution over several decades as it has become the poster child of US-China technology competition. Required reading for any serious student of US-China relations and the race to dominate the technologies of the future. A superb and nuanced summary of the good, the bad, and the ugly that characterizes the firm s history, and shows how the sausage was made with unflagging balance and fairness.
Paul Triolo, partner for China and technology policy lead at Albright Stonebridge Group
A timely, clear, and undeniably worrying account.
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