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Book SynopsisIn 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
Trade Review"Recommended." --
Choice "With
The Huawei Model, Yun Wen has written a superb book on the complex relationship between Huawei and China as well as the implications of their simultaneous rises, albeit in different roles, with regard to the information and communications technology (ICT) industry and geopolitics." --
Chinese Journal of Communication "Yun Wen's book
The Huawei Model provides a detailed and useful account of the evolution and global expansion of Huawei Technologies." --
China QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
Introduction {Introductions and conclusions don’t typically have chapter numbers}
Chapter 1. Huawei’s Domestic Accumulation: A Path Intertwining with China’s ICT Development
Chapter 2. Going Global: Outward Expansion into the Global South
Chapter 3. March into the Global North: Opportunity or Peril?
Chapter 4. From Path-Dependent to Path-Breaking? Huawei’s Technological Capability Development
Chapter 5. Ownership, Management, and Labor Discipline
Conclusion
Notes
Index
