George Cooper Pardee Lowe / Low Yay Chong
September 9, 1904 – September 24, 1996
(California Death Index and
Department of Veteran Affairs date)
September 21, 1996 (Social Security date)
1910 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
918 Seventh Street, Oakland, California
Yuen Low Fat, father
Ho Yip, mother
Mabel Low, daughter
Pardee Low, son
Alice Low, daughter
Helen Low, daughter
Young Hip, boarder
The San Francisco Call
March 9, 1913
“Lads Christened Fourth of March”
Oakland Tribune
July 11, 1917
“Boy Scouts Make Good in Berrypicking”
...The following are the boys who have
made good at their respective camps:
Camp Maddux—...Pardee Low...
Oakland Tribune
May 24, 1918
“Nine Hundred Graduate from Eighth Grade”
Oakland’s Younger Generation Makes Bow
...Pardee Low...
1920 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
918 Seventh Street, Oakland, California
Yuen F Low, father
Hoey Low, mother
Mabel Low, daughter
Pardee Low, son
Alice Low, daughter
Helen Low, daughter
Wilson Low, son
Marshall Low, son
Oakland Tribune
April 7, 1921
“Oakland and Berkeley Schools to Debate”
...The Oakland team will include Pardee Lowe...
Oakland Tribune
April 9, 1921
“High School Teams Win Debate Contest”
...Pardee Low and John Truman, from
Oakland, were awarded the decisions....
OAKLAND HIGH SCHOOL
June 1922
Pardee Lowe photograph
Oakland Tribune
April 30, 1925
“YMCA to Debate Value of Education”
...The team is as follows: ...Pardee Lowe...
Oakland Tribune
September 4, 1927
“‘Y’ Men to Give Program at Church”
...Pardee Low, speakers....
1930 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
907 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California
Yuen Low Fat, father
Mary Low Fat, mother
Pardee Low Fat, son
Helen Low Fat, daughter
Wilson Low Fat, son
Samuel Lee, cousin
JUNE 1930
Standford University graduate
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT CASE FILES
Boston, 2500/9163
New York, 150 250
San Francisco, 12016/4947
June 3, 1931 Interview
PASSENGER LIST
Pardee Lowe
S.S. Albert Ballin
departed from Hamburg, Germany, September 17, 1931
arrived in New York, New York, September 25, 1931
Oakland Tribune
March 25, 1933
“Reception to Chinese Set”
Dr. Pardee Lowe, formerly of Oakland and now field research
investigator in sociology for Stanford University, will speak
at Centennial Presbyterian Church, Twenty-fourth Avenue
and Foothill Boulevard, tomorrow evening. His theme will
be “World Fellowship and Manchuria.”...
Oakland Tribune
June 23, 1933
“Legions Post Will Hear Talk on China”
Highlights of the Manchurian crisis, from the Chinese point
of view, will be discussed by Pardee Low, Stanford graduate
and lecturer, at the Oakland Veterans’ Memorial Building...
Oakland Tribune
June 29, 1933
“Japan Can’t Settle Manchuria, Claim”
Having won room for colonization in Manchuria, Japan
today can not persuade colonists to take possession of it,
because of the climate. This was the opinion advanced
last night by Pardee Low, American born Chinese, before
members of the Lake Merritt Post of the American Legion....
Oakland Tribune
April 7, 1934
“Glenn Frank Will Speak at College”
International Week to Be Observed
Next Week at Stockton Institution
...Other speakers during the week will be...Pardee Low, former
member of the speakers’ bureau of the Chinese legation....
From page vii of Father and Glorious Descendant:
“Some of this material appeared in, and is reprinted
through the courtesy of, Asia, Atlantic Monthly,
Survey Graphic, and Yale Review.”
Survey Graphic
February 1936
“Chinatown’s Last Stand”
September 9, 1904 – September 24, 1996
(California Death Index and
Department of Veteran Affairs date)
September 21, 1996 (Social Security date)
1910 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
918 Seventh Street, Oakland, California
Yuen Low Fat, father
Ho Yip, mother
Mabel Low, daughter
Pardee Low, son
Alice Low, daughter
Helen Low, daughter
Young Hip, boarder
The San Francisco Call
March 9, 1913
“Lads Christened Fourth of March”
Oakland Tribune
July 11, 1917
“Boy Scouts Make Good in Berrypicking”
...The following are the boys who have
made good at their respective camps:
Camp Maddux—...Pardee Low...
Oakland Tribune
May 24, 1918
“Nine Hundred Graduate from Eighth Grade”
Oakland’s Younger Generation Makes Bow
...Pardee Low...
1920 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
918 Seventh Street, Oakland, California
Yuen F Low, father
Hoey Low, mother
Mabel Low, daughter
Pardee Low, son
Alice Low, daughter
Helen Low, daughter
Wilson Low, son
Marshall Low, son
Oakland Tribune
April 7, 1921
“Oakland and Berkeley Schools to Debate”
...The Oakland team will include Pardee Lowe...
Oakland Tribune
April 9, 1921
“High School Teams Win Debate Contest”
...Pardee Low and John Truman, from
Oakland, were awarded the decisions....
OAKLAND HIGH SCHOOL
June 1922
Pardee Lowe photograph
Oakland Tribune
April 30, 1925
“YMCA to Debate Value of Education”
...The team is as follows: ...Pardee Lowe...
Oakland Tribune
September 4, 1927
“‘Y’ Men to Give Program at Church”
...Pardee Low, speakers....
1930 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
907 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California
Yuen Low Fat, father
Mary Low Fat, mother
Pardee Low Fat, son
Helen Low Fat, daughter
Wilson Low Fat, son
Samuel Lee, cousin
JUNE 1930
Standford University graduate
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT CASE FILES
Boston, 2500/9163
New York, 150 250
San Francisco, 12016/4947
June 3, 1931 Interview
PASSENGER LIST
Pardee Lowe
S.S. Albert Ballin
departed from Hamburg, Germany, September 17, 1931
arrived in New York, New York, September 25, 1931
Oakland Tribune
March 25, 1933
“Reception to Chinese Set”
Dr. Pardee Lowe, formerly of Oakland and now field research
investigator in sociology for Stanford University, will speak
at Centennial Presbyterian Church, Twenty-fourth Avenue
and Foothill Boulevard, tomorrow evening. His theme will
be “World Fellowship and Manchuria.”...
Oakland Tribune
June 23, 1933
“Legions Post Will Hear Talk on China”
Highlights of the Manchurian crisis, from the Chinese point
of view, will be discussed by Pardee Low, Stanford graduate
and lecturer, at the Oakland Veterans’ Memorial Building...
Oakland Tribune
June 29, 1933
“Japan Can’t Settle Manchuria, Claim”
Having won room for colonization in Manchuria, Japan
today can not persuade colonists to take possession of it,
because of the climate. This was the opinion advanced
last night by Pardee Low, American born Chinese, before
members of the Lake Merritt Post of the American Legion....
Oakland Tribune
April 7, 1934
“Glenn Frank Will Speak at College”
International Week to Be Observed
Next Week at Stockton Institution
...Other speakers during the week will be...Pardee Low, former
member of the speakers’ bureau of the Chinese legation....
From page vii of Father and Glorious Descendant:
“Some of this material appeared in, and is reprinted
through the courtesy of, Asia, Atlantic Monthly,
Survey Graphic, and Yale Review.”
Survey Graphic
February 1936
“Chinatown’s Last Stand”
Asia
January 1937
“Mixed Marriage”
January 1937
“Mixed Marriage”
Asia
February 1937
“The Good Life in Chinatown”
February 1937
“The Good Life in Chinatown”
Fresno Bee Republican
October 7, 1937
“Chinese Opera Is Planned Sunday”
...A discussion of the question, Can China Win? by Dr.
Pardee Lowe of Stanford University, assistant to the
unofficial Chinese representatives to America, will
precede the operetta. Dr. Lowe, a contributor to the
Atlantic Monthly and Asia, is preparing a paper on the
Oriental situation for the Institute of Pacific Relations....
Fresno Bee Republican
October 10, 1937
Fresno Bee Republican
October 11, 1937
“China Aide Predicts Japan to Declare War, Close Port”
“The Japanese soon will formally declare war and obtain
the belligerent right to close the last Chinese port remaining
open, the British colony at Hongkong.” This was the prediction
of Dr. Pardee Lowe of Stanford University, assistant to the
unofficial Chinese representatives to America, who discussed
the topic, Can China Win? last night at the White Theater....
Yale Review
Autumn 1938
“Letters of Hawk Sung”
Lowe’s translation of letters
The Atlantic Monthly
December 1938
“Father’s Robes of Immortality”
Pardee Lowe (p. 785) is a Chinese-American of the second
generation. After graduating from the Harvard School of
Business Administration, he devoted himself to a sociological
study of the Chinese in California. His researches have led
him through fascinating byways of the old Barbary Coast in
San Francisco, where he is to-day a familiar and welcome figure.
Oakland Tribune
April 11, 1939
“Army Reserve Women to Meet”
...Pardee Lowe, a Chinese writer and lecturer, will be the guest
of honor and special speaker. His subject will be “The Pacific
House—the Spirit of an Exposition.”...
1940 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS
500 Riverside Drive, New York, New York
Pardee Lowe
Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Charles L. Bailey (Lowe’s father-in-law)
Margaret Bailey (Lowe’s mother-in-law)
Louisa Lowe (Lowe’s wife)
Pardee Lowe (Lowe’s son)
WORLD WAR II ENLISTMENT
Pardee Lowe
July 24, 1942, enlistment date
Fort Jay, Governors Island,
New York, New York
height: 66 inches
weight: 128 pounds
Father and Glorious Descendant
Little, Brown and Company, 1943
dust jacket missing
dust jacket missing
Father and Glorious Descendant
Armed Services Edition
The New York Times
April 11, 1943
“Son and Illustrious Parent”
Father and Glorious Descendant
reviewed by Helena Kuo
The New York Times
October 2, 1943
“Hayes Committee Names 100 Books”
Fall List of the Publications Recommended
by Catholic Group Is Announced
Biography
Father and Glorious Descendant,
by Pardee Lowe (Little, Brown)
JANUARY 1948
Pardee Lowe and Louisa Hope Bailey divorce
U.S. CONSULAR REPORT OF MARRIAGES
Pardee Lowe and Anita Ting
January 25, 1948
Park Hotel, Shanghai, China
Online Archive of California
Pardee Lowe profile
“Register of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. China Office. Records, 1943-1948”
On the right, under the heading Table of Contents,
click Historical Note. Scroll down to next to last
paragraph which mentions Lowe in the second line.
Asian American Autobiographers
Guiyou Huang, Editor
Greenwood Press, 2001
Pardee Lowe
Chinese American Voices
Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, H. Mark Lai
University of California Press, 2006
Historical Dictionary of Asian American
Literature and Theater
Wenying Xu
Scarecrow Press, 2012
Pardee Lowe
Pardee Lowe profile
“Register of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. China Office. Records, 1943-1948”
On the right, under the heading Table of Contents,
click Historical Note. Scroll down to next to last
paragraph which mentions Lowe in the second line.
Asian American Autobiographers
Guiyou Huang, Editor
Greenwood Press, 2001
Pardee Lowe
Chinese American Voices
Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, H. Mark Lai
University of California Press, 2006
Historical Dictionary of Asian American
Literature and Theater
Wenying Xu
Scarecrow Press, 2012
Pardee Lowe
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Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter)
Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter)
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