House of Huawei
Author: Eva Dou
ISBN: 9780349146508
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 21 Apr 2026
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
<h3>The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world</h3>'Explosive' Sunday Times'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS'A tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today' Financial Times'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.
ISBN: 9780349146508
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 21 Apr 2026
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
<h3>The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world</h3>'Explosive' Sunday Times'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS'A tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today' Financial Times'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.
