Hou Wenbo is an author about whom limited public information is currently available. His representative work, Monologue on Innovation, is classified as popular science writing. Only one work by him is included in the database, and his nationality, dates of birth and death, educational background and professional experience cannot be confirmed, nor is an English name recorded. Understanding of the author and his work therefore rests mainly on the clues provided by the title and category of Monologue on Innovation: the book is presumably a popular-science work centered on innovation, addressed to general readers and attempting to discuss ideas, phenomena or methods related to innovation in a relatively personal narrative manner. In the absence of further material, it would be inappropriate to make excessive inferences about his writing style or influence; only the appearance of more works or introductions could offer a fuller picture of this author and his popular-science writing.