Books by Eva Dou
“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
Interviews where books by Eva Dou were recommended
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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
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Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson -

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
It’s been another big year for technology and AI, but books on geopolitics and global political rivalries are front and centre on the shortlist of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. FT journalist Andrew Hill, the prize’s organizer, talks us through the six books that made the cut—from the enigmatic founders of multi-billion- and trillion-dollar businesses to the challenges governments face in achieving growth and prosperity.
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
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Abortion: A History
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Maria Theresa: Empress
by Richard Bassett -

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Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives
by Michael Joseph Gross -

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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
by Eva Dou
Notable Nonfiction Books of Early 2025, recommended by Sophie Roell
Notable Nonfiction Books of Early 2025, recommended by Sophie Roell
As March draws to a close, Sophie Roell, editor of Five Books, looks at some of the nonfiction books that have come out in the first three months of 2025, from the biography of one of the world’s great female leaders to better ways to measure a country’s economy.










