The House of He

Set against the terminal decline of the Qing Dynasty, The House of He follows a visionary patriarch in Guangzhou who executes a strategic dispersal of his six children across the globe to establish a borderless infrastructure of capital and intelligence. From the boardrooms of New York and the military-industrial machine of Tokyo to the high-stakes 1935 Silver Crisis in Hong Kong and the pivotal OCBC merger in Singapore, the He siblings navigate the existential tension between national allegiance and the cold, technical maneuvers of familial survival.

This is a work of "Financial Noir"—a chronicle of a lineage that transcends the nation-state to emerge as a clandestine architect of the nascent global order. For the thinking reader who prizes geopolitical strategy and the "Hard History" of the twentieth century, The House of He is a definitive narrative concerning the winning, losing, and ultimate auditing of an era.