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Comparative Union Democracy: Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions . By Edelstein J. David and Warner Malcolm. (New York: Halstead, Wiley, 1976. Pp. viii + 378. $19.95.)

June Dreyer's excellent study fills a longstanding need for an account of China's policies toward her national minorities. Six percent of China's population, some 40 million people, belong to approximately 50 recognized national minorities. Although some of these groups are small, primitive tribes, others are large populations with complex cultures living in areas of great strategic importance and containing important natural resources—for example, the Tibetans, Uighurs, and Mongolians. Anyone who teaches about China has been asked for reading materials on China's minorities policies. If the Chinese have dealt creatively with problems of agricultural modernization, health care delivery, and law and order, have they also found new ways to deal with the intractable problems of ethnic and cultural diversity? Have the dominant Han (ethnic Chinese) managed to integrate minorities politically while protecting their cultural autonomy? Has Chinese policy in this area, as in others, diverged from Soviet practice? What is the influence of the Chinese tradition? Dreyer answers all these questions in clear, unpretentious language which will be accessible to students interested in China mainly as a comparative case study; at the same time, she connects trends in minorities policies to national political events (for example, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution) with sophisticated Pekingology that China specialists will admire.