The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world 'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang
'Essential reading' Chris Miller author of Chip War 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 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.
