[Commlist] new book: The Huawei Model: The Rise of China’s Technology Giant

new book

*The Huawei Model***

The Rise of China’s Technology Giant

*Yun Wen***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252085338/the-huawei-model/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252085338/the-huawei-model/> _**__*

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“Finally, there is a systematic analysis of Huawei, China’s leading tech 
giant. Yun Wen’s account is comprehensive, rigorous, and truly global 
spanning both the South and the North. Definitely a must-read.”*—Jack 
Linchuan Qiu, author of **/Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital 
Abolition/*

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“The well-organized approach, including the discussions of overseas 
investment and labor practices, presents unique findings, and adds to 
our knowledge not only of Huawei’s path, but also of Chinese private 
company dynamics in broader terms. The primary source material, 
especially the author interviews with Huawei and other Chinese corporate 
officials, adds a valuable dimension to our understanding of the 
company’s development.”*—Eric Harwit, author of **/China’s 
Telecommunications Revolution/*

In 2019, the United States’ trade war with China expanded to blacklist 
the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting 
attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) 
firm entwined with China’s political-economic transformation. But the 
question remained: why does Huawei matter? Yun Wen uses the Huawei story 
as a microcosm to understand China’s evolving digital economy and the 
global rise of the nation’s corporate power. Rejecting the idea of the 
transnational corporation as a static institution, she explains Huawei’s 
formation and restructuring as a historical process replete with 
contradictions and complex consequences. She places Huawei within the 
international political economic framework to capture the dynamics of 
power structure and social relations underlying corporate China’s 
globalization. As she explores the contradictions of Huawei’s 
development, she also shows the ICT firm’s complicated interactions with 
other political-economic forces.

Comprehensive and timely, /The Huawei Model/offers an essential analysis 
of China’s dynamic development of digital economy and the global 
technology powerhouse at its core.

*Yun Wen*is a senior economist at an economic policy research firm in 
Vancouver, Canada.



*University of Illinois Press**| The Geopolitics of Information | 
November 2020 | 248pp | 9780252085338 | PB | £18.99**

*Price subject to change.

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