House of Huawei
The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
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Narrated by:
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Nancy Wu
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Written by:
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Eva Dou
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The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.
On 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 US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the global 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. Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed, and national glory that Huawei helped to build—and that has also ensnared it.
©2025 Eva Dou (P)2025 Penguin AudioWhat the critics say
“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 timely, clear, and undeniably worrying account.”
– Kirkus