“Sun has produced an empirically nuanced, theoretically path-breaking study with profound lessons for improving the effectiveness of global certification systems in ameliorating climate and other environmental challenges.”
Benjamin Cashore, Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
“Sun's book provides a much-needed corrective to simplistic narratives that reductively portray China as an environmental laggard.”
Lena Partzsch, Chair of Environmental Governance, Technische Universität Berlin; author of Alternatives to Multilateralism
“Yixian Sun's Certifying China makes substantial and innovative contributions to global and comparative research on transnational governance and eco-certification and constitutes the definitive work on these topics in the Chinese context.”
Stacy D. VanDeveer,, Professor and Chair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston; coeditor of Changing Climates in North American Politics
“An excellent first step in addressing a range of questions about China and supply chain sustainability.”
The China Quarterly
“A timely and vital contribution to conversations about sustainability inside and outside academia.”
H-Net Reviews
“Certifying China makes a significant contribution to emerging research on eco-certification and sustainability governance within an emerging economy context.”
Earth System Governance
“This informative book makes a valuable contribution not only in terms of its rich empirical evidence but also its perceptive theoretical engagement with the political economy of environmental governance, particularly regarding the interaction between international actors and the Chinese state.”
Environmental Politics
“Sun has enriched our understanding of eco-certification by re-examining certain previously studied factors and adding helpful specifics on the unique business-government relations in China that have mattered significantly for explaining when and how transnational private sustainability governance has found support from Chinese firms. Key lessons from this analysis are sure to inform further work on how eco-certification may become more successful in the future.”
Transnational Environmental Law
“[Certifying China] makes a valuable academic contribution through not only its theoretical discussion but also the empirical evidence collected through Sun's research.”
The Journal of Development Studies
“[Certiftying China] is a gem. It is innovative in its design and meticulous in its research, rich in data, and full of subtleties.”
The China Journal
