House of Huawei

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 *Riveting, robustly researched * Times Literary Supplement *Explosive * Sunday Times *Authoritative… a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today * Financial Times *A comprehensive and instructive account of [Huawei’s] rapid ascent to become ‘China’s most powerful company’… There’s probably no better account of China’s rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company * Wall Street Journal *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 *A timely, clear and undeniably worrying account * Kirkus *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… 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 technology-policy reporter has parsed decades’ worth of documents to piece together how Huawei’s enigmatic founder rose from poverty to lead what is probably China’s most powerful company * The Economist *A first-rate, highly informed and even-handed account of the company’s rise and rise * Literary Review *

Eva Dou is a Washington Post journalist. 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.