Recommendations from our site
“Huawei is a vast Chinese technology and telecoms company which has come to prominence in the last 20 or so years…Eva Dou does a great job of looking at all the available evidence of what’s to be said about Huawei. She’s done countless interviews and a lot of archival research. As our Financial Times reviewer wrote at the time, it’s probably the best version that you can get of what we know about Huawei, even if it leaves some of it still seeming rather mysterious. And, of course, as the book points out, in the last four or five years, Huawei has become much more of a tool of China’s relations with the US and the West. There’s lots of pressure on Western countries not to use Huawei equipment because of fears of espionage and there has also been a lot of pushback from the Chinese. So it’s a fascinating story that brings together the geopolitics as well as the microeconomics and commercial success of this company.” Read more...
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
“Most notable in business books, The House of Huawei by Eva Dou tells the story of the Chinese telecoms giant and its founder Ren Zhengfei. Dou describes Huawei’s emergence on the world telecoms stage as a Sputnik moment for the US. What I particularly liked about it was the long sweep of Chinese history told through the life of an extraordinary entrepreneur.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Early 2025
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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Common Sense on Mutual Funds
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?
by Fred Schwed -
The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
by Honoré de Balzac -
Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
by Helen Thompson
