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15. Image of Ren Zhengfei: Model Entrepreneur or an Agent of State Power?

verfasst von : Matthias Niedenführ

Erschienen in: Huawei Goes Global

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Niedenführ outlines how Ren Zhengfei, the enigmatic founder of Huawei, is represented in and outside China. Drawing on Chinese sources, such as biographies, media articles, and statements from Chinese entrepreneurs communicating through exclusive WeChat groups usually inaccessible to outside observers, Niedenführ finds that Ren appears in domestic discourse as a model entrepreneur and champion of Confucian values. Ren’s personal history and struggles in establishing and developing Huawei evoke sympathy from both the general public and his entrepreneur peers, who see his success as evidence of diligence and resilience. This contrasts starkly with Western media portrayals which rarely include discussion of Ren as a person, instead depicting him and his company as little more than constructions and agents of the Chinese state.

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These are among the most influential news portals in China reaching a wide audience. Sina.​comand its microblogging platform Sina Weibo has 500 million users (Baidu “Sina”). Its competitorSohu.​com is first and foremost a search engine but also offers a news portal (Baidu “Sohu”). Huxiu.​com is a younger network that caters to an audience interested in technology, business, and lifestyle topics (Baidu “Huxiu”).
 
2
Cheungkung Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is one of the most successful private business schools in China, initiated by the Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
 
3
The Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies (IAHS) at Peking University is headed by Prof. Tu Weiming, who is recognized as one of the leading scholars of Confucianism in the world.
 
4
The BoAo Forum for Asia (BFA) is an annual forum for state and business leaders from Asia organized by China since 2002. The “Davos of China” is held on Hainan Island and attended alternatingly by the president and prime minister of China.
 
5
Lei Feng was a model soldier and worker, who died at a young age from work exhaustion in a people’s commune in the early 1960s and has been used as a model for others to emulate by the party-state ever since.
 
6
Zeng Guofan is a revered nineteenth-century scholar-general who was instrumental in defeating the Taiping-Rebellion in Eastern China as well as supporting the adoption of Western weaponry.
 
7
This quote is a patriotic formula of Ming scholar Gu Yanwu, who influenced Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, and other patriotic intellectuals in the early twentieth century.
 
8
The term “new era” (xin shidai) here not only refers to a new era for Huawei but is a political term referring to current development phase under the leadership of Xi Jinping.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Image of Ren Zhengfei: Model Entrepreneur or an Agent of State Power?
verfasst von
Matthias Niedenführ
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Buch
Huawei Goes Global

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-47578-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-47579-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47579-6_15

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