ghts are filtered through a traditional Chinese upbringing. This is not a reason to reject Father and Glorious Descendent because this process is one that most immigrants experience in one form or another when they arrive in a new land.Thus, Father and Glorious Descendent deserves to be studied by today’s students and scholars in the Asian-American Studies field for multiple reasons. First, the book provides insight into Chinese immigrant family that became very successful. This is important because it is a credit to the Chinese culture that its people can adapt and be successful in a hostile environment. Lowe provides us with unique insight into what an immigrant must do to make it in a new land and does so without rejecting his old culture. Secondly, the novel provides today’s student with insight into a segment of Chinese immigrants who should not be ignored. We should not focus on those who came over and stubbornly stuck to their old ways just because the prevailing sentiment is to favor them. Instead the academic community should focus on the whole of the Chinese American experience and in some ways this involves some form of accommodationist thinking. Lastly, by not studying a success story as profound as Father and Glorious Descendent, we deprive today’s Asian-Americans of a unique source of inspiration. In the struggle against racism and hatred that today’s minorities must face we must draw on all past demonstrations of success in the face of this monster. Pardee Lowe amply demonstrates that hard work and perseverance in the face of challenge will pay off, in addition the author was able to succeed fifty years ago in a racial climate much more hostile than today’s.In conclusion, it is a travesty that Pardee Lowe’s Father and Glorious Descendent has been ignored for so long by the Asian-American academic community. At no point does the author express any “self-contempt” no...
